Jeremiah 2:30

Jeremiah 2:30 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• New International Version (NIV)“In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.
• English Standard Version (ESV)In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

Context of Jeremiah 2:30

28But where are your gods Which you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you In the time of your trouble; For according to the number of your cities Are your gods, O Judah. 29“Why do you contend with Me? You have all transgressed against Me,” declares the Lord. “In vain I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion. 31O generation, heed the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You’? 32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

Jeremiah 2:30 word by word

לַשָּׁוְא֙ הִכֵּ֣יתִי אֶת־בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם מוּסָ֖ר לֹ֣א לָקָ֑חוּ אָכְלָ֧ה חַרְבְּכֶ֛ם נְבִֽיאֵיכֶ֖ם כְּאַרְיֵ֥ה מַשְׁחִֽית׃Read the interlinear

• In vainשָׁוְאshâv' shav · vanity: vainH7723
• I have struckנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• your sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• They acceptedלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• noלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• chasteningמוּסָרmûsâr · disciplineH4148
• swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• has devouredאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• your prophetsנָבִיאnâbîy' · prophetH5030
• Like a destroyingשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843

Cross-references for Jeremiah 2:30

• Jeremiah 5:2And although they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ Surely they swear falsely.”
• Jeremiah 6:29The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.
• Jeremiah 7:28You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.
• Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are the Lord my God.
• 2 Chronicles 28:22Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to the Lord.
• Isaiah 1:5Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick And the whole heart is faint.
• Isaiah 9:13Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.
• Ezekiel 24:13In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, Yet you are not clean, You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again Until I have spent My wrath on you.
• Zephaniah 3:2She heeded no voice, She accepted no instruction. She did not trust in the Lord, She did not draw near to her God.
• Revelation 9:20The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;
• Revelation 16:9Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.
• Jeremiah 26:20Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah.
• 1 Kings 19:10He said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
• 2 Chronicles 24:21So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.
• 2 Chronicles 36:16but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy.
• Nehemiah 9:26“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, And cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets who had admonished them So that they might return to You, And they committed great blasphemies.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 2:30

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30Your own sword hath detoured your prophets - An allusion probably to Manasseh 2 Kings 21:16. Death was the usual fate of the true prophet Nehemiah 9:26; Matthew 23:37.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 29-37Verses 29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The Jews had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of him!…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30devoured your prophets: See Jeremiah 26:20–23.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. (Jr 5:3; 6:29; Is 1:5; 9:13). your children--that is, your people, you. your ... sword ... devoured ... prophets--(2Ch 36:16; Ne 9:26; Mt 23:29, 31).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 2:30

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Chastisement
• Church
• Persecution
• Prophets

In the dictionaries

• Attire
• Bitter
• Cry
• Degenerate
• Handle
• Hold
• Holiness
• Manasseh
• Noble
• War; Warfare

Commentaries on Jeremiah 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings