Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?
New American Standard Bible
By your forsaking the Lord your God
When He
King James Version
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Holman Bible
by abandoning the Lord your God
while He was leading you along the way?
International Standard Version
You have done this to yourselves, have you not, by forsaking the LORD your God, when he is the one who led you on the way?
A Conservative Version
Have thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou have forsaken LORD thy God when he led thee by the way?
American Standard Version
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Amplified
“Have you not brought this on yourself
By abandoning (rejecting) the Lord your God
When He led you in the way?
Bible in Basic English
Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
Darby Translation
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou not do this to thyself? thou didst forsake Jehovah thy God in the time of thy being led in the way.
King James 2000
Have you not brought this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Did you not do this to yourself, [by] forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cometh not this unto thee, because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, ever since he led thee by the way?
NET Bible
You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.
New Heart English Bible
"Haven't you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
The Emphasized Bible
Is not this what thou wast certain to do for thyself, - in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way?
Webster
Hast thou not procured this to thyself in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
World English Bible
"Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Youngs Literal Translation
Dost thou not do this to thyself? By thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Consequences Of Apostasy
16 Also the sons of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of your head. 17 Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way? 18 And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:18
Your way and your doings have brought these things on you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.
Leviticus 26:15-46
and if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul hates My judgments, so that you will not do all My commandments, so that you break My covenant;
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
And it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.
Numbers 32:23
But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Jehovah. And be sure your sin will find you out.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the deserted, howling wilderness. He led him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.
Deuteronomy 32:19
And Jehovah saw, and despised them because of the provoking of His sons and of His daughters.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
2 Chronicles 7:19-20
But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and if you shall go and serve other gods and worship them,
Job 4:8
As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.
Psalm 77:20
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78:53-54
And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; but the sea flooded over their enemies.
Psalm 107:7
And He guided them by the right way, so as to go to a city to live in.
Psalm 136:16
To Him who led His people through the wilderness; for His mercy endures forever.
Isaiah 1:4
Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.
Isaiah 63:11-14
Then He remembered the days of old, Moses and His people, saying, Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him;
Jeremiah 2:13
For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
Hosea 13:9
O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in Me is your help.