Jeremiah 2:14

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

Jeremiah 2:14 In-Context

12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.
13 For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey?
15 The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have made his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none to dwell in them.
16 The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee, even to the crown of the head.
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