Jeremiah 2:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

And now — What business hast thou there? Sihor — The Nile: it signifies black, called Melas by the Greeks, either from the blackness of the land it passed through, or of the soil it casts up. The waters — Here and by the same words before is meant, to seek help from either place. River — Euphrates, often called so by way of eminency.

Jeremiah 2:18

18 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?