Jeremiah 2:30
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
American King James Version (AKJV)
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has 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.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
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.
Webster's Revision
In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
World English Bible
"I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
English Revised Version (ERV)
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Definitions for Jeremiah 2:30
Barnes's Jeremiah 2:30 Bible Commentary
Your own sword hath detoured your prophets - An allusion probably to Manasseh 2 Kings 21:16. Death was the usual fate of the true prophet Nehemiah 9:26; Matthew 23:37.
Wesley's Jeremiah 2:30 Bible Commentary
2:30 Children - Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city. Correction - Instruction: though they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your sword - You have been so far from receiving instruction, that you have, by the sword, and other ways of destruction, murdered those that I have sent to reprove you.
