Jeremiah 2:30
King James Version (KJV)
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
American Standard Version (ASV)
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
World English Bible (WEB)
"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 Cross References
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
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.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
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.
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
