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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Bible References

In vain

O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

The bellows are burned; the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that did not hear the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive chastisement; the faith is lost and was cut off from their mouth.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast afflicted me, and I was chastised as an indomitable bullock: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Furthermore, king Ahaz in the time of his distress trespassed even more against the LORD,

Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint.

But the people did not turn unto him that smote them, neither did they seek the LORD of the hosts.

In thy perverse filthiness thou shalt die because I have cleansed thee, and thou didst not cleanse thyself from thy uncleanness; thou shalt never cleanse thyself again, until I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

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

And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and the images of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk.

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues; and they did not repent to give him glory.

Your own sword

There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

And he replied, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of the hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek me to take my life.

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

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Nevertheless, they were contentious and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great abominations.

And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a slave that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

Who of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? and they have slain those who announced before the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers,

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us, and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,

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And if ye will not be corrected by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me,

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Therefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

Son of man, say unto her, Thou art not clean land, nor art thou sprinkled with rain in the day of indignation.

And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.

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