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Jeremiah 2:14

Sin

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.

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.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
KJV
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
WEB
Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
ASV
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?
DARBY
Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why is he become a spoil?
BLB
Is Israel a slave? Or [is] he born of the house? Why has he become as plunder?
ÅB
Er Israel en slave? Er han en hjemmefødt slave? Hvorfor er han blitt røvet?
OTB
Er Israel en tjener, født til slaveri? Hvorfor har han da blitt plyndret?
B1930
Er Israel en træl? Er han en hjemmefødt træl? Hvorfor er han blitt røvet?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 4:22

    And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

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  • Genesis 15:3

    And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

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  • Isaiah 50:1

    Thus 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.

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  • Ecclesiastes 2:7

    I 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:

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