Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 2:36

"Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria." — Jeremiah 2:36 (ASV)

Why gaddest thou ...? —The vigorous English expresses well, perhaps even with some added force, the frequentative force of the Hebrew. What did this perpetual change of policy, this shifting of alliances, mean? Shame and confusion would follow from the alliance with Nechoh, as it had followed from that with Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 16:10; 2 Chronicles 28:20).