Jeremiah 2:14

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Was Israel a servant? Born in the house, was he? Wherefore hath he become a prey?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Is Israel a slave?Was he born into slavery?Why else has he become a prey?

Hebrew Names Version
Is Yisra'el a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?

King James Version
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

English Standard Version
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?

New American Standard Bible
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a servant born in the home? Why has he become plunder?

New Century Version
Have the people of Israel become slaves? Have they become like someone who was born a slave? Why were they taken captive?

Amplified Bible
"Is Israel a servant? Is he a slave by birth? Why has he become a captive and a prey?

World English Bible
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is Israel a seruaunt, or is hee borne in the house? why then is he spoiled?

Legacy Standard Bible
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn slave?Why has he become plunder?

Berean Standard Bible
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

Contemporary English Version
People of Israel, you weren't born slaves; you were captured in war.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Is Isra'el a slave, born into serfdom? If not, why has he become plunder?

Darby Translation
Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why is he become a spoil?

Easy-to-Read Version
"Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born a slave, was he? Then why did the enemy carry him away as a captive?

George Lamsa Translation
Is Israel a servant? If he is a homeborn heir, why then is he plundered?

Good News Translation
"Israel is not a slave; he was not born into slavery. Why then do his enemies hunt him down?

Lexham English Bible
Is Israel a slave? Or a slave born in a house? Why has he become plunder?

Literal Translation
Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Is Israel a bonde seruaunt, or one of the housholde? Why is he then so spoyled?

American Standard Version
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?

Bible in Basic English
Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a prey?

King James Version (1611)
Is Israel a seruant? is he a home-borne slaue? why is he spoiled?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is Israel a bonde seruaunt, or one of the housholde? why is he the so spoyled?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?

English Revised Version
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he become a prey?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Israel is a boond man, ether is borun boonde?

Update Bible Version
Is Israel a slave? is he a home-born [slave]? why has he become a prey?

Webster's Bible Translation
[Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a home-born [slave]? why is he laid waste?

New English Translation
"Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?

New King James Version
"Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why is he plundered?

New Living Translation
"Why has Israel become a slave? Why has he been carried away as plunder?

New Life Bible
"Is Israel a servant? Is he born as a servant? Why can he be taken away?

New Revised Standard
Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become plunder?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey?

Revised Standard Version
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?

Young's Literal Translation
A servant [is] Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?

THE MESSAGE
"Isn't Israel a valued servant, born into a family with place and position? So how did she end up a piece of meat fought over by snarling and roaring lions? There's nothing left of her but a few old bones, her towns trashed and deserted. Egyptians from the cities of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken your skulls. And why do you think all this has happened? Isn't it because you walked out on your God just as he was beginning to lead you in the right way?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn servant? Why has he become a prey?

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Was Israel a servant? Born in the house, was he? Wherefore hath he become a prey? ¹⁵ Against him, have been roaring wild lions, They have uttered their voice, - and have made his land a desolation, His cities, have been burned, so as to have no inhabitant. ¹⁶ Even the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes have been crushing the crown of the head. ¹⁷ Is not this what thou wast certain to do for thyself, - in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way? ¹⁸ Now, therefore what hast thou to do with the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? Or what hast thou to do with the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Let thy wickedness correct thee And thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God, And that the dread of me should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Israel: Exodus 4:22, Isaiah 50:1

he a homeborn: Genesis 15:3, Ecclesiastes 2:7

spoiled: Heb. become a spoil

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:4 - shall be her Jeremiah 9:19 - we are

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
From that land, went forth Asshur, - and he built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah:

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem, Elam and Asshur, - and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

Genesis 15:18
In that day, did Yahweh solemnise with Abram a covenant, saying, - To thy seed, have I given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river - the river Euphrates:

Genesis 25:18
And they stretched their habitations from Havilah as far as to Shur, which is over against Egypt, as thou goest in towards Assyria, - over against all his brethren, he settled down.

Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn ye and set yourselves forward, and enter into the hill country of the Amorites, and into all the places near, in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south, and in the coast of the sea, - the land of Canaan and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 11:24
every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread yours, shall it be, - from the desert and the Lebanon from the river - the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea, shall be your boundary.

Daniel 10:4
And, on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, - when, I, was by the side of the great river, the same, is Tigris,

Revelation 9:14
saying unto the sixth messenger, who was holding the trumpet - Loose the four messengers, who are bound at the great river Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Is Israel a servant?.... That he does not abide in the house, in his own land, but is carried captive, becomes subject to others, and is used as a slave; so the Targum,

"as a servant;''

is he not the Lord's first born? are not the people of Israel called the children of the living God? how come they then to be treated not as children, as free men, but as servants? this cannot be owing to any breach of covenant or promise on God's part, or to the failure of the blessing of national adoption bestowed on them; but to some sin or sins of theirs, which have brought them into this miserable condition:

is he a home born slave? or born in the house, of the handmaid, and so in the power of the master of the family in whose house he was born,

Exodus 21:4 or the sense is, either Israel is a servant,

or a son of the family d, as some render the words; not the former, being not only the son of a free woman, but Jehovah's firstborn; if the latter,

why is he spoiled? why is he delivered up to the spoilers? as the Targum; why should he be given up into the hands of the Babylonians, and become their prey? is it usual for fathers to suffer their children, or those born in their house, to be so used? some reason must be given for it.

d יליד בית "filius familias", Munster.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It was Israel’s glory to be Yahweh’s servant Jeremiah 30:10, and slaves born in the house were more prized than those bought with money as being more faithful Genesis 14:14. Cannot Yahweh guard His own household? How happens it that a member of so powerful a family is spoiled? In the next verse the prophet gives the reason. Israel is a runaway slave, who has deserted the family to which he belongs by right of birth, and thereby brought upon himself trouble and misery.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 2:14. Is Israel a servant? — Is he a slave purchased with money, or a servant born in the family? He is a son himself. If so, then, why is he spoiled? Not because God has not shown him love and kindness; but because he forsook God, turned to and is joined with idols.