Jeremiah 2:30 Parallel Translations

"I have punished your children without results. They didn't respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

ASV:

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

BBE:

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

DBY:

In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

ERV:

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

JPS:

In vain have I smitten your children--they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

WBS:

In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

WEB:

I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

YLT:

In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 2:30 Cross References

XREF:

Nehemiah 9:26 "But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, And cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets who had admonished them So that they might return to You, And they committed great blasphemies.

Isaiah 1:5 Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick And the whole heart is faint.

Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You have smitten them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 7:28 "You shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 26:20 Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah.

Acts 7:52 "Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

1 Thessalonians 2:15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your {r} own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
(r) That is, you have killed your prophets, that exhorted you to repentance, as Zechariah, Isaiah, etc.

WES:

2:30 Children - Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city. Correction - Instruction: though they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your sword - You have been so far from receiving instruction, that you have, by the sword, and other ways of destruction, murdered those that I have sent to reprove you.

MHC:

2:29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The Jews had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of him! The Lord was displeased with their confidences, and would not prosper them therein. Men employ all their ingenuity, but cannot find happiness in the way of sin, or excuse for it. They may shift from one sin to another, but none ever hardened himself against God, or turned from him, and prospered.

CONC:

Accepted Blows Chastening Correction Death-giving Destroying Destruction Devoured Got Instruction Lion Prophets Punished Purpose Ravening Received Respond Smitten Sons Struck Sword Training Vain

Accepted Blows Chastening Children Correction Death-Giving Destroying Destruction Devoured Good Instruction Lion Prophets Punished Purpose Ravening Received Respond Smitten Struck Sword Training Vain

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