King James Version
Jeremiah 2:14 in the King James Version says “Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? spoiled: Heb. become a spoil?” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? spoiled: Heb. become a spoil?”
Jeremiah 2:14 · KJV
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? spoiled: Heb. become a spoil?
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled , and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. yelled: Heb. gave out their voice
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. have: or, feed on thy crown
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Is Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“is he a homeborn”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
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