Jeremiah 2:30

New American Bible - revised edition

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

He answered: “I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, but the Israelites have forsaken your covenant. They have destroyed your altars and murdered your prophets by the sword. I alone remain, and they seek to take my life.”

1 Kings 19:14

He replied, “I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, but the Israelites have forsaken your covenant. They have destroyed your altars and murdered your prophets by the sword. I alone remain, and they seek to take my life.”

2 Chronicles 24:21

But they conspired against him, and at the king’s command they stoned him in the court of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:22

While he was already in distress, the same King Ahaz increased his treachery to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s anger against his people blazed up beyond remedy.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with crime; Your lips speak falsehood, and your tongue utters deceit.

Isaiah 9:13

So the Lord cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed, I heard Ephraim rocking in grief: You chastised me, and I was chastised; I was like an untamed calf. Bring me back, let me come back, for you are the Lord, my God.

Jeremiah 46:14

Proclaim in Egypt, announce in Migdol, announce in Memphis and Tahpanhes! Say: Fall in, get ready, the sword has devoured your neighbors.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Jeremiah 7:28

Say to them: This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the Lord, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech.

Lamentations 4:13

Except for the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who poured out in her midst the blood of the just.

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say to her: You are an unclean land receiving no rain at the time of my fury.

Ezekiel 24:13

Even in defiling yourself with depravity I would still have cleansed you, but you would not have your impurity cleansed. You will not be cleansed now until I wreak my fury on you.

Daniel 9:13

As it is written in the law of Moses, this evil has come upon us. We did not appease the Lord, our God, by turning back from our wickedness and acting according to your truth,

Zephaniah 3:2

It listens to no voice, accepts no correction; In the Lord it has not trusted, nor drawn near to its God.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they do not please God, and are opposed to everyone,

Revelation 16:9

People were burned by the scorching heat and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues, but they did not repent or give him glory.