“Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?”
Jeremiah 2:14 (KJV) |
Jeremiah 2:14
From Jeremiah 2, in the Book of Jeremiah (Old Testament).
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Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
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For 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.
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Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
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The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
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Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.