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14 Is Israel a slave? Or a slave born in a house?[a]
    Why has he become plunder?
15 The young lions have roared against him,
    they have raised[b] their voices.[c]
And they have made his land as horror;
    his cities are destroyed, without[d] an inhabitant.
16 Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes
    will shave[e] your skull.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:14 Literally “born of a house”
  2. Jeremiah 2:15 Literally “given”
  3. Jeremiah 2:15 Hebrew “voice”
  4. Jeremiah 2:15 Literally “from not”
  5. Jeremiah 2:16 Literally “pasture”
  6. Jeremiah 2:16 Or “crown of your head”

14 Is Israel a servant, a slave(A) by birth?
    Why then has he become plunder?
15 Lions(B) have roared;
    they have growled at him.
They have laid waste(C) his land;
    his towns are burned(D) and deserted.(E)
16 Also, the men of Memphis(F) and Tahpanhes(G)
    have cracked your skull.

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