Jeremiah 2:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Thy way, i.e. thy actions; a metaphor. See Poole on "Jeremiah 2:33". Why dost thou shuffle thus with me, to seek auxiliaries any where, rather than to cleave to me, Jeremiah 2:18; See Poole on "Isaiah 52:9", See Poole on "Isaiah 52:10". Or, like strumpets, whose love is never fixed, but sometimes set on one, sometimes on another. Thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt: thou hast run to Assyria, and then to Egypt, and they shall both make thee ashamed by their disappointing of thee; thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as others have been, Isaiah 36:6. Or rather, Egypt shall stand thee in no more stead than Assyria hath done, Isaiah 30:3,5. And how Tilgath-pilneser served them, see 2 Chronicles 28:20. Before Hezekiah's time the Jews made a league with the Assyrians against the Syrians and the Israelites, and then against the Egyptians; neither prospered. He tells them they must expect no better success from Egypt.

Jeremiah 2:36

36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.