KJV King James Version
[Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled?
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Jeremiah 2:14
[Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
WEB World English Bible
Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?
ASV American Standard Version
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 2
11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13 For 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.
14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled?
15 The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
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Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my firstborn:Ecclesiastes 2:7I got [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.Genesis 15:3And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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