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Whyמַהdo you go about so lightlyתֵּזְלִי מְאֹדchangingלְשַׁנּוֹתyour way?אֶת דַּרְכֵּךְAlsoגַּםby Egyptמִמִּצְרַיִםyou will be put to shame,תֵּבוֹשִׁיasכַּאֲשֶׁרyou were put to shameבֹּשְׁתְּby Assyria.מֵאַשּׁוּר
Jeremiah 2:36
Study it in the app“Why do you go about so lightly changing your way? Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, as you were put to shame by Assyria.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 2:36, word by word
- do you go about so lightlyתֵּזְלִיtezli
be gone, run out
Go away, run out, disappear.
Where else “tezli” appears- do you go about so lightlyמְאֹדmeod
very
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appears- changingשַׁנּוֹתshanot
change
To make something different from what it was.
Where else “shanot” appears- your wayדַּרְכֵּdarke
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “darke” appears- by Egyptמִּצְרַיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- you will be put to shameתֵּבוֹשִׁיtevoshi
be disappointed
To be disgraced because what one trusted in failed.
Where else “tevoshi” appears- by Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears
Places in this verse
1Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
2Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
The context
35And you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Look, I will enter into judgment with you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 · This verse (above)
37From there also you will go out with your hands on your head; for YHWH has rejected those you trust, and you will not prosper with them.