Parallel Verses
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?
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 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?
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 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? 18 And what hast thou now to do in the street of Egypt? To drink foul water? Either, what makest thou in the way to Assyria? To drink water of the flood?
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:18
Thy ways and thy thoughts have brought thee unto this. This is thy own wickedness and disobedience, that hath possessed thine heart.
Leviticus 26:15-46
or if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine covenant:
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
"But and if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep and to do all his commandments and ordinances which I command thee this day; then all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee:
Numbers 32:23
But and if ye will not do so, behold, ye sin against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Deuteronomy 32:10
"He found him in a desert land, in a void ground and a roaring wilderness. He led him about and gave him understanding, and kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32:19
And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.
2 Chronicles 7:19-20
But and if ye turn away and forsake mine ordinances and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them:
Job 4:8
For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same.
Psalm 77:20
Thou leddest thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78:53-54
He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea.
Psalm 107:7
He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to the city where they dwelt.
Psalm 136:16
Who led his people through the wilderness! For his mercy endureth forever.
Isaiah 1:4
Alas for this sinful nation, which are expert in blasphemies; a seed of ungracious people, corrupt in their ways. They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger, and are gone backward.
Isaiah 63:11-14
Yet remembered he the old time of Moses and his people: How he brought them from the water of the sea, as a shepherd doth with his sheep; how he had given his holy spirit among them;
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people hath done two evils: They have forsaken me, the well of the water of life; and digged them pits, yea, vile and broken pits, that hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:19
Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts.
Hosea 13:9
O Israel, thou doest but destroy thyself; In me only is thy help.