14Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?


In Context

11 Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

12 |Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,| says Yahweh.

13 |For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

14 Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?

15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken 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 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 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 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?