King James Version
"Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head."
— Jeremiah 2:16, King James Version
“The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head. ”
“The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.”
“Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel.”
“The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee, even to the crown of the head.”
“Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.”
“Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.”
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.