Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2:30 in other translations
| BSB | “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.” |
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| WEB | “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has 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. |
| YLT | In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion. |
| DARBY | 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. |
| Webster | In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. |
What does Jeremiah 2:30 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 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…
Jeremiah 2:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 2:30
- Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
- Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Jeremiah 26:20-24
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath–jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah: And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt; And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt. And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. …
- Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Matthew 23:29
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
- Jeremiah 7:28
But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
- Isaiah 9:13
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.
- Luke 11:47-51
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; …
- 2 Chronicles 24:21
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.
- Mark 12:2-8
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
5:3; 6:29,30; 7:28; 31:18; 2Ch 28:22; Isa 1:5; 9:13; Eze 24:13
Zep 3:2; Re 9:20,21; 16:9
your own sword.
26:20-24; 1Ki 19:10,14; 2Ch 24:21; 36:16; Ne 9:26; Mt 21:35,36
Mt 23:29,34-37; Mr 12:2-8; Lu 11:47-51; 13:33,34; Ac 7:52
1Th 2:15
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Context
- Jeremiah 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Jeremiah 2:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por demás he azotado vuestros hijos; no han recibido corrección. Cuchillo devoró vuestros profetas como león destrozador. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | J’ai frappé vos fils en vain, ils ne reçoivent pas la correction; votre épée a dévoré vos prophètes, comme un lion destructeur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vergeblich habe ich eure Kinder geschlagen, sie haben keine Zucht angenommen; euer Schwert hat eure Propheten gefressen wie ein verderbender Löwe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Frustra percussi filios vestros: disciplinam non receperunt. Devoravit gladius vester prophetas vestros: quasi leo vastator |