| Jeremiah 2:14 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn servant? Why has he become a prey? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "Are the people of Israel slaves? Were they born into slavery? Why, then, have they become someone's property?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? |
| ASV: | Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born'slave ? why is he become a prey? |
| BBE: | Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste? |
| DBY: | Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a spoil? |
| ERV: | Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he become a prey? |
| JPS: | Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a prey? |
| WBS: | Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he laid waste? |
| WEB: | Is Israel a servant? is he a native-born slave? why is he become a prey? |
| YLT: | A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey? |
| Jeremiah 2:14 Cross References |
| XREF: | Jeremiah 5:19 "It shall come about when they say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' then you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'
Jeremiah 17:4 And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance That I gave you; And I will make you serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger Which will burn forever. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 2:14 [Is] Israel a {u} servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he laid waste?
(u) Have I ordered them like servants and not like dearly beloved children? Ex 4:22 therefore it is their fault only, if the enemy spoil them. |
| WES: | 2:14 A slave - Slave is here added to home - born to express the baseness of his service, because the master had power to make those slaves who were born of slaves in his house. Why - Why is he thus tyrannized over, as if strangers had the same right over him as owners over their slaves? |
| MHC: | 2:14-19 Is Israel a servant? No, they are the seed of Abraham. We may apply this spiritually: Is the soul of man a slave? No, it is not; but has sold its own liberty, and enslaved itself to divers lusts and passions. The Assyrian princes, like lions, prevailed against Israel. People from Egypt destroyed their glory and strength. They brought these calamities on themselves by departing from the Lord. The use and application of this is, Repent of thy sin, that thy correction may not be thy ruin. What has a Christian to do in the ways of forbidden pleasure or vain sinful mirth, or with the pursuits of covetousness and ambition? |
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