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Jeremiah 2:14

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Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?

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Jeremiah 2:14 in other translations

Is Israel a slave?
Is he born into slavery?
Why has he become a captive?

Jeremiah 2:14 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 2:14 in context

  1. 12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
  2. 13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  3. 14Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?
  4. 15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
  5. 16The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.