World English Bible
Jeremiah 2:15
“The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 2
13
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14
Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?
15
The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
16
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
17
Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
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Warnings of Jerusalem’s fall and promises of a new covenant.
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