Jeremiah 2:30
“In vaine haue I smitten your children, they receiued no correction: your owne sword hath deuoured your prophets, like a destroying lyon.”
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Jeremiah 2:30 Context
28But where are thy Gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise if they can saue thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities, are thy Gods, O Iudah. 29Wherefore will yee plead with me? yee all haue transgressed against me, saith the Lord. 30In vaine haue I smitten your children, they receiued no correction: your owne sword hath deuoured your prophets, like a destroying lyon. 31¶ O generation, see yee the word of the Lord: haue I beene a wildernesse vnto Israel? a land of darkenesse? wherefore say my people; We are Lords, we will come no more vnto thee? 32Can a maide forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people haue forgotten me dayes without number.
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Other Translations for 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.
- King James Version
"In vain I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Darby Bible
In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Webster's Bible
I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- World English Bible
In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
- Youngs Literal Bible
In vain have I smitten your children--they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Jeremiah 2:30
2:30 Children - Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city. Correction - Instruction: though they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your sword - You have been so far from receiving instruction, that you have, by the sword, and other ways of destruction, murdered those that I have sent to reprove you.