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Consequences of Israel’s Unfaithfulness

14 “Is Israel a slave, or was he born a servant?[a]
    Why then has he become plunder?
15 Young lions roar at him, they cry out loudly.
    They have made his land into a wasteland,
and his cities are destroyed
    so they are without inhabitants.
16 Also, people from Memphis and Tahpanhes[b]
    have broken[c] your skull.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:14 Lit. was he a home born servant (cf. Exod 21:4)
  2. Jeremiah 2:16 I.e. Egyptian cities
  3. Jeremiah 2:16 Or shaved