NET Bible
"Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel."
— Jeremiah 2:16, NET Bible
“Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
Israel’s Reliance on Foreign Alliances(not on God)“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?
Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.
Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel.
You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the LORD your God when he was leading you along the right path.
What good will it do you then to go down to Egypt to seek help from the Egyptians? What good will it do you to go over to Assyria to seek help from the Assyrians?
Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.