Jeremiah 2:14 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

More versions

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why has he become a captive and a prey?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Is Israel a slave, a servant by birth? If not, why then has he become prey?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Then why has he become a prey?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Is Israel a bondman, or a home-born slave? Why then is he become a prey?

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁴ “Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?

Jeremiah 2:14 Cross References

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

Exodus 12:49

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Exodus 4:22

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

Isaiah 50:1

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Jeremiah 17:4

And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

Jeremiah 5:19

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.