Jeremiah Chapter 2 verse 30 Holy Bible
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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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.
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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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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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In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - Have I smitten your children. The cities and towns of Judah are represented as so many mothers, and the populations as their children. It would, no doubt, be more natural to take "children" literally; but then we must read the verb in the next clause, "Ye have received," as the Septuagint actually renders. In the former case the "smiting" will refer to all God's "sore judgments" -sword, drought, famine, pestilence; in the latter, to the loss of life in battle. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets (comp. 2 Chronicles 24:21; 2 Kings 21:16). Manasseh's persecution (which extended, according to Josephus, especially to the prophets) may account for the preponderance of "false prophets" referred to in ver. 8 (cf. Matthew 23:29).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) Your own sword hath devoured your prophets.--So in the long reign of Manasseh, the prophets who rebuked him had to do so at the risk of their lives. Isaiah, as the tradition ran, had been foremost among the sufferers. Much innocent blood had been shed from one end to another of Jerusalem (2Kings 21:11-16).
