Verse 30
Jeremiah 2:30
Young's Literal Translation
30
In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לַ/שָּׁוְא֙ הִכֵּ֣יתִי אֶת בְּנֵי/כֶ֔ם מוּסָ֖ר לֹ֣א לָקָ֑חוּ אָכְלָ֧ה חַרְבְּ/כֶ֛ם נְבִֽיאֵי/כֶ֖ם כְּ/אַרְיֵ֥ה מַשְׁחִֽית
English Translation
I struck your children in vain; they did not accept discipline; your sword has devoured like a destroying lion.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
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'Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for...
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3
Holy [is] Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil com...
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4
Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel.
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5
Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off fro...
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6
And have not said, Where [is] Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us i...
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7
Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in...
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8
The priests have not said, 'Where [is] Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And t...
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9
Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.
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10
For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there h...
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11
Hath a nation changed gods? (And they [are] no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that...
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12
Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah...
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13
For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out fo...
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14
A servant [is] Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?
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15
Against him roar do young lions, They have given forth their voice, And make his land become a desol...
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16
Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes Consume thee -- the crown of the head!
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17
Dost thou not do this to thyself? [By] thy forsaking Jehovah thy God (Elohim), At the time He is lea...
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18
And now, what -- to thee in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what -- to thee in t...
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19
Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and...
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20
For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, 'I do not serve,' For,...
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21
And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the de...
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22
But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity be...
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23
How sayest thou, 'I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valle...
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24
A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her mee...
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25
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, 'It is incurable,...
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26
As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their...
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27
Saying to wood, 'My father [art] thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turne...
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28
And where [are] thy gods, that thou hast made to thyself? Let them arise, if they may save thee, In...
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29
Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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30
In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your...
31
O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkne...
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32
Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without...
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33
What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught th...
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34
Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found th...
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And thou sayest, 'Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I ha...
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What? thou art very vile to repeat thy way, Even of Egypt thou art ashamed, As thou hast been ashame...
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Also from this thou goest out, And thy hands on thy head, For Jehovah hath kicked at thy confidences...
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