Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.In other versions
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
ASV
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.
BBE
In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
DBY
In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
WEB
In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
YLT
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
ENG
In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
WBT
“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
BSB
In context
28But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
29Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
32Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.