14Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a spoil?


In Context

11 Hath a nation changed its gods? and they are no gods; but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

12 Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, and shudder; be amazed very much, saith Jehovah.

13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.

14 Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a spoil?

15 The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant.

16 Even the children of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of thy head.

Jeremiah 2:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14[Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave?] why is he spoiled?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become prey?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born'slave ? why is he become a prey?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he become a prey?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he laid waste?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a servant? is he a home born slave? why is he spoiled?