Jeremiah 2:30
What does Jeremiah 2:30 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 2:30 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
KJV
King James Version · 1611In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
- Revelation 9:20
And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:
- Isaiah 1:5
Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;
- Ezekiel 24:13
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
- 2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Jehovah, this same king Ahaz.
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