KJV 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.
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Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 2
27 Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לַשָּׁוְא֙H7723 · shavvanity: falseהִכֵּ֣יתִיH5221 · na.khahto smiteאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בְּנֵיכֶ֔םH1121 · benson: childמוּסָ֖רH4148 · mu.sardisciplineלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotלָקָ֑חוּH3947 · la.qachto take: takeאָכְלָ֧הH398 · a.khalto eatחַרְבְּכֶ֛םH2719 · che.revswordנְבִֽיאֵיכֶ֖םH5030 · na.viprophetכְּאַרְיֵ֥הH738 · a.rilionמַשְׁחִֽית׃H7843 · sha.chatto ruin
Cross-references
Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:1 Thessalonians 2:15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.Jeremiah 26:20-24And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:Matthew 23:29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,Jeremiah 7:28But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.Isaiah 9:13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.Revelation 16:9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.Matthew 23:34-37Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city:Luke 11:47-51Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.2 Chronicles 24:21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.Mark 12:2-8And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.Jeremiah 6:29-30The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.1 Kings 19:10And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.
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