Jeremiah 2:30

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.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs. And they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee. And they were guilty of great blasphemies.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than the rock and they have refused to return.

Isaiah 1:5

For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Matthew 23:29

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,

Jeremiah 7:28

And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God nor received instruction. Faith is lost and is taken away out of their mouth.

Isaiah 9:13

And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.

Revelation 16:9

And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues, neither did they penance to give him glory.

Zephaniah 3:2

She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received discipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her God.

Ezekiel 24:13

Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness. Neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.

Jeremiah 31:18

Hearing, I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity. Thou hast chastised me: and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted: for thou art the Lord my God.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

2 Chronicles 28:22

Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord. King Achaz, himself by himself,

2 Chronicles 24:21

And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.

1 Kings 19:14

With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant. They have destroyed thy altars; they have slain thy prophets with the sword. And I alone am left: and they seek my life to take it away.

1 Kings 19:10

And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant. They have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left: and they seek my life to take it away.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies and your tongue uttereth iniquity.

Jeremiah 46:14

Declare ye to Egypt and publish it in Magdal, and let it be known in Memphis and in Taphnis. Say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee.

Lamentations 4:13

Mem. For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean and not rained upon in the day of wrath.