14 Is Israel a [a]servant, or is he born in the house? why then is he spoiled?

15 The [b]Lions roared upon him and yelled, and they have made his land waste: his cities are burnt without [c]an inhabitant.

16 Also the children of [d]Noph and Tahapanes have [e]broken thine head.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:14 Have I ordered them like servants and not like dearly beloved children? Exod. 4:22, therefore it is their fault only, if the enemy spoil them.
  2. Jeremiah 2:15 The Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.
  3. Jeremiah 2:15 Not one shall be left to dwell there.
  4. Jeremiah 2:16 That is, the Egyptians: for these were two great cities in Egypt.
  5. Jeremiah 2:16 Have grievously vexed thee at sundry times.

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