Jeremiah 2:18
Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Note Hebrew of Shihor, a branch of the Nile River
Note Hebrew the River
And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Note i.e., the Euphrates River
And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- what hast
- Jeremiah 2:36; Jeremiah 37:5–10; Isaiah 30:1–7; Isaiah 31:1; Lamentations 4:17; Ezekiel 17:15; Hosea 7:11
- Sihor
- Joshua 13:3
- or what hast
- 2 Kings 16:7–9; 2 Chronicles 28:20, 21; Hosea 5:13