Jeremiah 2:14

Consequences Of Apostasy

¹³ For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste? ¹⁵ The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

People of Israel

Israel

Exodus 4:22

And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

Isaiah 50:1

This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.