Jeremiah 2:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

More versions

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 said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19:14

He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy 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 24:21

But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones 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, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Nehemiah 9:26

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

Isaiah 1:5

Why will you still be smitten, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, 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 smote them, nor seek the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have heard Ephraim bemoaning, ‘Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for thou art the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 46:14

“Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; Say, ‘Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour round about you.’

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not thy eyes look for truth? Thou hast smitten them, but they felt no anguish; thou hast consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 7:28

And 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

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

Ezekiel 22:24

“Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed, or rained upon in the day of indignation.

Ezekiel 24:13

Its rust is your filthy lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your filthiness, you shall not be cleansed any more till I have satisfied my fury upon you.

Daniel 9:13

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us, yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and giving heed to thy truth.

Zephaniah 3:2

She listens to no voice, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord, she does not draw near to her God.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men

Revelation 16:9

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