King James Version
Jeremiah 2:36 in the King James Version says “Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.”
Jeremiah 2:36 · KJV
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. secret: Heb. digging
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“so much”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
“to change”
H8138to fold, i.e., duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“thy way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“as thou wast ashamed”
H954properly, to pale, i.e., by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“as thou wast ashamed”
H954properly, to pale, i.e., by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed
“of Assyria”
H804ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire
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