16The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.


In Context

13 |For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?

15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

17 |Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

18 Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Jeremiah 2:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:16The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have deflowered thee, even to the crown of the head.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:16The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Even the children of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of thy head.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:16The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee — the crown of the head!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of your head.