Jeremiah 2:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In vain have I stricken your children (your people); they received no discipline (no correction). Your own sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion. American Standard Version (1901) In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. Common English Bible I have disciplined your children in vain; they have rejected my correction. You have devoured your prophets like a hungry lion. Catholic Public Domain Version I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In vain have I struck your children: they have not received correction. Your sword hath devoured your prophets: your generation is like a ravaging lion. |
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD, the 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.
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD, the 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.
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
Yet the people hath not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought the LORD of hosts.
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.
O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were 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.
And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
Son of man, say unto her, thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have satisfied my fury upon thee.
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet have we not entreated the favour of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth.
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them which shewed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drave out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of the God which hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.