Jeremiah 2:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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)

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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

³⁰ 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.

Jeremiah 2:30 Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19:14

He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”

2 Chronicles 24:21

But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:22

In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 9:13

The people did not turn to him who struck them or seek the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed, I heard Ephraim pleading: “You disciplined me, and I took the discipline; I was like an untrained calf. Bring me back; let me come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 46:14

Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; Say, “Take your stations and be ready, for the sword shall devour those around you.”

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 7:28

You shall say to them: This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

Lamentations 4:13

It was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Ezekiel 22:24

Mortal, say to it: You are a land that is not cleansed, not rained upon in the day of indignation.

Ezekiel 24:13

Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness, you did not become clean from your filth; you shall not again be cleansed until I have satisfied my fury upon you.

Daniel 9:13

Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us. We did not entreat the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and reflecting on his fidelity.

Zephaniah 3:2

It has listened to no voice; it has accepted no correction. It has not trusted in the Lord; it has not drawn near to its God.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone

Revelation 16:9

they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.