Jeremiah 2:30 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁰ “In vain have I smitten your children – they received no instruction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying 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.

Jeremiah 2:30 Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, “I have been very jealous for יהוה  Elohim of hosts, for the children of Yisra’ĕ

1 Kings 19:14

And he said, “I have been very jealous for יהוה  Elohim of hosts, for the children of Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 24:21

And they conspired against him, and at the command of the sovereign they stoned him with stones in the courtyard of the House of יהוה.

2 Chronicles 28:22

And in the time of his distress Sovereign Aḥ

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they were mocking the messengers of Elohim and despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of יהוה  arose against His people, until there was no healing.

Nehemiah 9:26

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Torah behind their backs. And they slew Your prophets who had warned them, to bring them back to Yourself. And they worked great blasphemies.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands have been defiled with blood, and your fingers with crookedness; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

Isaiah 9:13

And the people have not turned back to Him who smites them, nor have they sought יהוה  of hosts.

Jeremiah 31:18

“I have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are יהוה  my Elohim.

Jeremiah 46:14

“Declare in Mitsrayim, and let it be heard in Migdol. And let it be heard in Noph and in Taḥ

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have smitten them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces harder than rock, they refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 7:28

“But you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that did not obey the voice of יהוה  their Elohim, nor did they accept instruction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

Lamentations 4:13

It was because of the sins of her prophets, The crookednesses of her priests, Who shed in her midst 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 displeasure.’

Ezekiel 24:13

“In your filthiness is wickedness. Because I have cleansed you, but you are not clean. You shall not be cleansed of your filthiness any more, till I have caused My wrath to rest upon you.

Daniel 9:13

“As it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of יהוה  our Elohim, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth.

Zephaniah 3:2

She did not obey the voice, she did not accept instruction, she did not trust in יהוה, she did not draw near to her Elohim.

Matthew 23:29

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

Acts 7:52

“Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Master יהושע  and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and who displease Elohim and are hostile to all men,

Revelation 16:9

And men were burned with great heat, and they blasphemed the Name of Elohim who possesses authority over these plagues. And they did not repent, to give Him esteem.