Jeremiah 2:14
Jeremiah chapter 2 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?
Context
v.13For 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.
v.14This passage
v.15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:
- Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;
- Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.