Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, the children of Noph and Tahpenes have defiled thy neck.
New American Standard Bible
Have
King James Version
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
Holman Bible
have also broken your skull.
International Standard Version
Also, people from Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken your skull.
A Conservative Version
The sons also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.
American Standard Version
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.
Amplified
“Moreover, the men of
Have shaved the crown of your head [to degrade you].
Bible in Basic English
Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
Darby Translation
Even the children of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of thy head.
Julia Smith Translation
Also the sons of Noph and Tahapanes, they will feed thee upon the crown of the head.
King James 2000
Also the children of Noph and Tahpanes have broken the crown of your head.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes will {shave} your skull.
Modern King James verseion
Also the sons of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of your head.
NET Bible
Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel.
New Heart English Bible
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
The Emphasized Bible
Even the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes have been crushing the crown of the head.
Webster
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
World English Bible
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
Youngs Literal Translation
Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Consequences Of Apostasy
15 Why do they roar and cry then upon him, as a lion? They have made his land waste, his cities are so burnt up, that there is no man dwelling in them. 16 Yea, the children of Noph and Tahpenes have defiled thy neck. 17 Cometh not this unto thee, because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, ever since he led thee by the way?
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 46:14
"Preach throughout the land of Egypt, and cause it be proclaimed at Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpenes, and say: Stand still, make thee ready, for the sword shall consume thee round about.
Deuteronomy 33:20
And unto Gad he said, "Blessed is the room-maker Gad. He dwelleth as a lion that catcheth the arm with the of the head.
Isaiah 19:13
The princes of Zoan are become fools, and the princes of Noph are deceived: yea, they deceive Egypt with their nobility of their stock.
Jeremiah 43:7-9
and so came in to Egypt: for they were not obedient unto the commandment of God. Thus came they to Tahpenes.
Jeremiah 44:1
This is the word that was showed to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews, which dwelt in Egypt: at Migdol, at Tahpenes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros.
Ezekiel 30:16
and kindle a fire in Egypt. Sin shall be in great heaviness, Alexandria shall be rooted out, and Noph shall have daily sorrow.
2 Kings 18:21
Dost thou trust to the staff of this broken reed Egypt, on which if a man lean it will run into his hand and pierce it? For even so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath in the time of his reign in Jerusalem, and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Isaiah 1:6-7
From the sole of the foot unto the head, there is no whole part in all your body: but all are wounds, botches, sores and stripes, which can neither be helped, bound up, mollified, nor eased with any ointment.
Isaiah 8:8
And shall break in upon Judah, increasing in power, till he get him by the throat. He shall fill also the wideness of thy land with his broad wings, O Immanuel."
Isaiah 30:1-6
Alas, for those disobedient children," sayeth the LORD, "that will take counsel without me. Alas, that they will take a secret advice, and not out of my spirit: and therefore add they sin unto sin.
Isaiah 31:1-3
Woe be unto them that go down into Egypt for help, and trust in horses, and comfort themselves in chariots, because they be many, and in horsemen because they be lusty and strong. But they regard not the holy one of Israel, and they ask no question at the LORD.
Jeremiah 46:19
O thou daughter of Egypt make ready thy gear to flit. For Memphis shall be void desolate, so that no man shall dwell therein.
Ezekiel 30:13
And thus sayeth the LORD God: I will destroy the Idols, and bring the images of Noph to an end. There shall no more be a prince of Egypt, and a fearfulness will I send into the Egyptians' land.