Matthew Poole and continuators on 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.

i. e. Thy actions a metaphor. See on verse 33. why dost thou shuffle thus with me, to seek auxiliaries any where rather, then to cleave to me verse 18. See on Isa. 57.9, 10. Or, like Strumpets, whose love is never fixed, but sometimes set on one, sometimes on another.

Thou hast run to Assyria, and then to Egypt, and they shall both make thee ashamed by their disappointments of thee: thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as others have been, Isa. 36.6. Or rather Egypt shall stand thee in no more stead, then Assyria hath done, Isa. 30.3, 5. and how Tilgath Pelneser served them. See 2 Chr. 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.

Marginal references: chap. 31.22.