Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:14

14 ¶ Is Israel a servant? is he a home born slave ? why is he spoiled ?

Did I ever account him so, or did I not rather always reckon him my first-born, so some as verse 31. but it may better relate to his sad condition, and abuses from others as chap. 49.1. which God or the Prophet doth here enquire into; and Slave is here rightly added to home-born, (though not in the Text) to enhance the condition of his service, because the Master had Power to make these Slaves, who were born of Slaves in his house which argues his condition very low, whether he were thus born, or had been forced to sell himself to be a slave.

He Speaks, either of the thing to is that be, as if it were already done, because of the certainty of it, as of that devastation made by the Assyrians and Chaldeans who afflicted the remnant of the Iews, or of that havock, that was made of them formerly by Senacherib the Assyrians, and Egyptians why is he thus Tyrannized over Isa. 42.24. as if strangers had the same right over him, as owners over their Slaves; he removes here the false causes of Israels misery, that he may the more aggravate, and set home the true, as verse 17, 19. he was my son, if he now become a slave he may thank himself.

Marginal references: Heb. become a spoil.