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Jeremiah 2:30

“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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ASV

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

KJV

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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Original language & word study

12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לַשָּׁוְא֙la.shaV'for <the> vanityH7723 →
הִכֵּ֣יתִיhi.Kei.tiI struckH5221 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בְּנֵיכֶ֔םbe.nei.Khemsons yourH1121 →
מוּסָ֖רmu.SarcorrectionH4148 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
לָקָ֑חוּla.Ka.chuthey acceptedH3947 →
אָכְלָ֧ה'a.khe.Lahit devouredH398 →
חַרְבְּכֶ֛םchar.be.Khemsword yourH2719 →
נְבִֽיאֵיכֶ֖םne.vi.'ei.Khemprophets yourH5030 →
כְּאַרְיֵ֥הke.'ar.Yehlike a lionH738 →
מַשְׁחִֽית׃mash.ChitdestroyingH7843 →

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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.Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.Leviticus 26:23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,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,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—Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!Daniel 9:13Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.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 26:20–24Now 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.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.Romans 11:3“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.Luke 3:20Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.Jeremiah 26:23They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!Matthew 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.Isaiah 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.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.

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