Jeremiah 2:30 ““I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your ow…”

Jeremiah 2:30

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

World English Bible

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

American Standard Version

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue smitten your children in vaine, they receiued no correction: your owne sworde hath deuoured your Prophets like a destroying lyon.

Darby Translation

In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Young's Literal Translation

In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.

Bible in Basic English

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

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Cross references

“In vain”

Jeremiah 5:3 Isaiah 1:5 Jeremiah 7:28 Isaiah 9:13 Jeremiah 31:18 2 Chronicles 28:22

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Isaiah 1:5 · BSB

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Jeremiah 7:28 · BSB

Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

Isaiah 9:13 · BSB

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 31:18 · BSB

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

2 Chronicles 28:22 · BSB

In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

“your own sword”

Nehemiah 9:26 Acts 7:52 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Jeremiah 26:20–24 Matthew 23:29 1 Kings 19:10

Nehemiah 9:26 · BSB

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Acts 7:52 · BSB

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

1 Thessalonians 2:15 · BSB

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

Jeremiah 26:20–24 · BSB

Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.

Matthew 23:29 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

1 Kings 19:10 · BSB

“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

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