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Jeremiah 2:14 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 2 · verse 14
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?Jeremiah 2:14 · King James Version
Jeremiah 2:14 in context
12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
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.
14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- homebornbayitha houseH1004 →
- homebornyâlîydbornH3211 →
- servantʻebeda servantH5650 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
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The prophet, further to evince the folly of their forsaking God, shows them what mischiefs they had already brought upon themselves by so doing;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-19