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


In Context

11 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols.

12 Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror," declares the Lord .

13 "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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

15 Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

16 Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:14Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a spoil?

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?