SinaiJeremiah 2:30
American Standard Version
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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Jeremiah 2:30 in other translations
“I have struck your children in vain.
They received no correction.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets,
like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2:30 in context
- 28But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
- 29Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
- 30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- 31O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
- 32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.