"Is Israel a bond servant, or one of the household? Why is he then so spoiled?

"Should I then, for all this, have mercy upon thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. And albeit they were bound to me in marriage, yet they fell to adultery, and hunted harlots' houses.

Fear ye not me, sayeth the LORD? Are ye not ashamed, to look me in the face? Which bind the sea with the sand, so that it cannot pass his bounds: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing; and though the waves thereof do swell, yet may they not go over.

They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD.

For as straightly as a breech lieth upon a man's loins, so straightly did I bind the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah unto me, sayeth the LORD: that they might be my people; that they might have a glorious name; that they might be in honour. But they would not obey me.

all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the Isles that are beyond the sea;

There is no man to meddle with thy cause, or to bind up thy wounds: there may no man help thee.

what time as the king of Babylon's Host laid siege unto Jerusalem. But Jeremiah the prophet lay bound in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house:

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah on this manner, when he was yet bound in the court of the prison,

so that every man should let his servant and handmaid go free, Hebrew and Hebrewess, and no Jew to hold his brother as a bond man.

But afterward they repented, and took again the servants and the hand maidens, whom they had let go free, and so made them bond again.

Then said Jeremiah, "It is not so, I go not to the Chaldeans." Nevertheless Irijah would not believe him, but brought Jeremiah bound before the princes.

And made Zedekiah's eyes to be put out, and bound him with chains, and sent him to Babylon.

Now while Jeremiah lay yet bound in the fore entry of the prison, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

This is the manner how the LORD intreated Jeremiah, when Nebuzaradan the chief Captain had let him go free from Ramah, whither he had led him bound among all the prisoners, that were carried from Jerusalem and Judah unto Babylon.

All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.

Behold, there shall come a people from the North, with a great bound of men, and many kings shall stand up from the ends of the earth.

They shall roar together like lions, and as the young lions when they be angry, so shall they bend themselves.

And when thou hast read out the book, bind a stone to it, and cast it in the midst of Euphrates,

Moreover, he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, caused him to be bound with chains, to be carried unto Babylon, and let him live in prison till he died.