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What does Jeremiah 2:14 mean?
"Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?"
— Jeremiah 2:14 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
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