Jeremiah 2:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Is Israel a slave, a house-born servant? Why then has he become plunder?

Cross References

Genesis 15:3

Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a servant of my household will be my heir.”

Exodus 12:49

There will be one law for the native and for the alien residing among you.

Exodus 4:22

So you will say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I acquired male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I also owned vast herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins you were sold, for your rebellions your mother was dismissed.

Jeremiah 17:4

You will relinquish your hold on your heritage which I have given you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know: For a fire has broken out from my anger, burning forever.

Jeremiah 5:19

And when they ask, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” say to them, “As you have abandoned me to serve foreign gods in your own land, so shall you serve foreigners in a land not your own.”