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Read Full Chapter (Jeremiah 2) Jeremiah 2:14 KJV
"Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?"
Jeremiah Chapter 2, Verse 14
Jeremiah 2:14 in Context (Verses 11–17 KJV)
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?