Jeremiah 2:30
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““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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““I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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 · Public Domain“In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 2:30 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 19:10“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
- 1 Kings 19:14“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
- 2 Chronicles 24:21But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 28:22In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
- Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
- Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
- Isaiah 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
- Jeremiah 6:29The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
- Jeremiah 7:28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
- Jeremiah 26:20Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.
- Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Ezekiel 24:13Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
- Zephaniah 3:2She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
- Matthew 21:35But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
- Matthew 23:29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
- Matthew 23:34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
- Mark 12:2At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
- Luke 11:47Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
- Luke 13:33Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
- Revelation 9:20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
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