30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.


In Context

27 Saying to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

29 Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, said the LORD.

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

31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to you?

32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Jeremiah 2:30 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:30"In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:30In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:30In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:30|I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:30In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.