Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
They accepted no chastening.
Your
Like a destroying lion.
King James Version
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Holman Bible
they would not accept discipline.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets
like a ravaging lion.
International Standard Version
"I've punished your children with no results, they have accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion."
A Conservative Version
In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.
American Standard Version
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Amplified
“In vain I have punished your people [with the consequences of their disobedience];
They received no insight from correction [and refused to change].
Your [own] sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Julia Smith Translation
In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.
King James 2000
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"For {in vain} I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion.
Modern King James verseion
In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
It is but lost labour, that I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword destroyeth your prophets, like a devouring lion.
NET Bible
"It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion."
New Heart English Bible
"I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
The Emphasized Bible
In vain, have I smitten your children, Correction, have they not accepted, - Your sword hath devoured your prophets, as a lion that destroyeth.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
Themes
Afflictions of the The Wicked » Are ineffectual of themselves, for their conversion
Topics
Interlinear
Nakah
Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
29
"Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the LORD.
30
They accepted no chastening.
Your
Like a destroying lion.
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:26
"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
Isaiah 9:13
The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 7:28
And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Jeremiah 26:20-24
There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.
1 Kings 19:10
He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."
1 Kings 19:14
He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."
2 Chronicles 24:21
But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 28:22
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.
Ezekiel 24:13
On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
Zephaniah 3:2
She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God.
Matthew 21:35-36
And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Mark 12:2-8
When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
Luke 11:47-51
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.
Luke 13:33-34
Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.'
Revelation 9:20-21
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
Revelation 16:9
They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.