Jeremiah 2:14

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 15:3

And Abram added: "Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house will be my heir."

Exodus 12:49

The law shall be the same for the native born and for the settler who sojourns with you."

Exodus 4:22

And you shall say to him: 'Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I obtained men and women servants, and I had a great family, as well as herds of cattle and great flocks of sheep, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: What is this bill of divorce for your mother, by which I have dismissed her? Or who is my creditor, to whom I have sold you? Behold, you were sold by your iniquities, and I have dismissed your mother for your wickedness.

Jeremiah 17:4

And you will be left behind without your inheritance, which I gave to you. And I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land that you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in my fury; it shall burn, even unto eternity."

Jeremiah 5:19

And if they say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' You shall say to them: 'Just as you have abandoned me and have served a strange god in your own land, so will you serve strangers in a land not your own.'