Jeremiah 2:14

Consequences Of Apostasy

¹³ For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters. ¹⁴ A servant is Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey? ¹⁵ Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desolation, His cities have been burnt without inhabitant.

People of Israel

Israel

Exodus 4:22

and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born is Israel,

Genesis 15:3

And Abram saith, 'Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus said Jehovah: 'Where is this -- the bill of your mother's divorce, Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Lo, for your iniquities ye have been sold, And for your transgressions Hath your mother been sent away.