Jeremiah 2:14
King James Version
“Israel a servant? he a homeborn why is he spoiled?”
Context
11Hath a nation changed gods, which yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for doth not profit.
12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14Israel a servant? he a homeborn why is he spoiled?
15The young lions roared upon him, yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?