10 They will be given over to the power of the sword;(A)
they will become a meal for jackals.

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10 They will be given over to the sword(A)
    and become food for jackals.(B)

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Consequences of Apostasy

14 Is Israel a slave?
Was he born into slavery?[a]
Why else has he become a prey?

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Footnotes

  1. 2:14 Lit born of a house

14 Is Israel a servant, a slave(A) by birth?
    Why then has he become plunder?

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As I live—this is the declaration of the Lord God—because my flock, lacking a shepherd, has become prey and food for every wild animal, and because my shepherds do not search for my flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than my flock,

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As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered(A) and has become food for all the wild animals,(B) and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,(C)

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