Jeremiah 2:17-19

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁷ Have you not brought this on yourself^(A)
by abandoning the Lord your God
while He was leading you along the way?
¹⁸ Now what will you gain
by traveling along the way to Egypt^(B)
to drink the waters of the Nile?^[a]
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria^(C)
to drink the waters of the Euphrates?^(D)
19 Your own evil will discipline you;^(E)
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter^(F) it is
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.