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 Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.

The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up.

And say to them, This a nation that heard not to the voice of Jehovah its God, and they received not instruction: faithfulness perished, and was eat off from their mouth.

Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God.

And in the time of straits to him and he will add to transgress against Jehovah: this the king Ahaz.

For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick

And the people turned not back even to him smiting them, and Jehovah of armies they sought not

In thy uncleanness is wickedness: because I cleansed thee and thou wert not cleansed, thou shalt no more be cleansed from thy uncleanness till my causing my wrath to rest upon thee.

She heard not to the voice: she received not instruction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.

And the rest of men who were not killed by these blows, neither repented of the works of their hands, that they should not worship evil spirits, and images of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood: which neither can see, neither hear, neither walk:

And men were parched up with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, having power over these blows: and they repented not to give him glory.

Your own sword

And also a man was prophesying in the name of Jehovah, Urijah son of Shemaiah, from the city of the forests, and he will prophesy against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it

And they will conspire against him, and stone him with stone by the commands of the king in the enclosure of the house of Jehovah.

For they will be mocking upon the messengers of God, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, even to the bringing up the wrath of Jehovah against his people, even to no healing.

And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.

And the farmers having taken his servants, truly one they stripped, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and deck the monuments of the just,

And he sent a servant to the husbandmen in time, that he might receive of the husbandmen from the fruit of the vineyard.

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

But I must go to day and to morrow and the following: for it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:

They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;

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And if by these ye will not be admonished by me, and ye went hostile with me;

What to do more to my vineyard, and did I not in it? wherefore I waited for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes.

Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, and ye filled its streets with the wounded.

Son of man, say to her, Thou a land not being cleansed; it was not rained upon in the day of anger.

And the farmers having taken his servants, truly one they stripped, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

And he added this to all, and shut up John in prison.