Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

"For {in vain} I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion.

New American Standard Bible

In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
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

I have struck down your children in vain;
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In vain
שׁו שׁואo 
Shav' 
Usage: 53

נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

נביא 
Nabiy' 
Usage: 315

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 146

References

Easton

Hastings

Sin

Context Readings

Israel Deserves To Be Punished

29 Why do you complain to me? All of you have {rebelled against me}," {declares} Yahweh. 30 "For {in vain} I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion. 31 O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and who persecuted us, and [who are] not pleasing to God and [are] opposed to all people,

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue [in] rebellion. [The] whole of [the] head [is] sick, and [the] whole of [the] heart [is] faint.

Jeremiah 5:3

Yahweh, do not your eyes [look] for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,

Isaiah 9:13

And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.

Jeremiah 7:28

"And you shall say to them, 'This [is] the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths.

Jeremiah 26:20-24

Indeed, there also was a man prophesying in the name of Yahweh, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah, from Kiriath-Jearim, and he prophesied against this city and against this land like all the words of Jeremiah.

1 Kings 19:10

Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the {Israelites} have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.

1 Kings 19:14

He said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of Hosts, for the {Israelites} have forsaken your covenant, demolished your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; I alone am left, and they seek to take my life!"

2 Chronicles 24:21

Then they conspired against him and stoned him [with] stones at the command of the king in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 28:22

And in the time of his distress, King Ahaz continued to act unfaithfully against Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy.

Jeremiah 6:29-30

[The] bellows are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. {In vain} {he keeps on refining}, but [the] wicked are not torn apart.

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you [are] Yahweh my God.

Ezekiel 24:13

In your uncleanness [is] obscene conduct, because I cleansed you, but you were not clean from your uncleanness; you will not be clean again until {I fully vent my rage} on you.

Zephaniah 3:2

She listens to no voice; she does not accept correction. In Yahweh she does not trust; to her God she does not draw near.

Matthew 21:35-36

And the tenant farmers seized his slaves, [one of] whom they beat, and [one of] whom they killed, and [one of] whom they stoned.

Matthew 23:29

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

Matthew 23:34-37

For this [reason], behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. [Some] of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town,

Mark 12:2-8

And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect [some] of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.

Luke 11:47-51

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

Luke 13:33-34

Nevertheless, it is necessary [for] me to be on the way today and tomorrow and on the next [day], because it is not possible [for] a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.

Revelation 9:20-21

And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, {in order not to worship} the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk,

Revelation 16:9

And people were burned up [by the] great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.

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