Catholic Public Domain Version
"Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Then why has he become a prey? "
— Jeremiah 2:14, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?”
“Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey? ”
“Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?”
“Israel’s Reliance on Foreign Alliances(not on God)“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?”
“Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey?”
“Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?”
“Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?”
See if a nation has ever changed their gods, though certainly those are not gods. Yet truly, my people have exchanged their glory for an idol.
Be astonished at this, O heavens, and be utterly desolate, O gates of heaven, says the Lord.
For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.
Is Israel a servant, or one born into slavery? Then why has he become a prey?
The lions have roared over him, and they have uttered their voice. They have set his land in solitude; his cities have been burned up, and there is no one who lives in them.
Likewise, the sons of Memphis and of Tahpanhes have defiled you, even to the top of the head.
Has this not been done to you because you abandoned the Lord your God, in that time when he was leading you by the way?