Jeremiah 2:14-16

New International Reader's Version

¹⁴ Are you people of Israel servants?
    You were not born as slaves, were you?
    Then why have you been carried off like stolen goods?
¹⁵ Lions have roared.
    They have growled at you.
They have destroyed your land.
    Your towns are burned and deserted.
¹⁶ The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes
    have cracked your skulls.