Jeremiah 2:30

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Summary

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

In vain

Your own sword

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In vain

O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.

The bellows are burned, the lead is melted by the fire; the refiner melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.

But you shall say to them, This is a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives instruction; truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God.

And in the time of his distress he trespassed even more against Jehovah, this King Ahaz.

Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, nor do they seek Jehovah of Hosts.

In your defilement is wickedness. Because I have purged you and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your defilement any more, until I have caused My fury to cease on you.

She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction. She trusted not in Jehovah; she did not draw near to her God.

And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and golden, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols (which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk).

And men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, He having authority over these plagues. And they did not repent in order to give Him glory.

Your own sword

And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

And he said, I have been very zealous for Jehovah the God of Hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and have slain Your prophets with the sword. And I, I alone, am left. And they seek to take my life away.

And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and ill-treated His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah arose against His people, until there was no healing.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them to turn them to You, and they worked great blasphemies.

And the vinedressers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

And at the season he sent a servant to the vinedressers, so that he might receive from the vinedressers the fruit of the vineyard.

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Yet I must walk today and tomorrow and the day following. For it cannot be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

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And if you will not be reformed by Me by these things, but will still walk contrary to Me,

What more could have been done to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.

You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled its streets with the dead.

Son of man, say to her: You are a land not being cleansed, nor rained on in the day of disgust.

And the vinedressers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

added still this above all, that he even shut John up in prison.