Jeremías 2:16

16. Noph (see Isaiah 19:13, and Ezekiel 30:13; Ezekiel 30:16) is an abbreviation of Menoph, which, in the Hebrew of Hosea 9:6, takes the other abbreviated form of Moph. This was Memphis, situated on the west bank of the Nile, south of old Cairo. It was the ancient capital of Lower Egypt, and later of the whole kingdom. Tahapanes was situated on the Pelusiac arm of the Nile. The two names taken together are made to represent Egypt.

Have broken the crown The English version misses the sense. The verb means, not to break, but to feed on. The sense is, They shall depasture the crown of thy head; that is, they shall make it bare, leave it without a covering, a sign of disgrace and of sorrow. Jeremiah 45:5; Jeremiah 48:37.