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In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

In vain {H7723} have I smitten {H5221} your children {H1121}; they received {H3947} no correction {H4148}: your own sword {H2719} hath devoured {H398} your prophets {H5030}, like a destroying {H7843} lion {H738}.

"In vain have I struck down your people. They would not receive correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a marauding lion.

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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Cross-References

  • Nehemiah 9:26 (7 votes)

    Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15 (5 votes)

    Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

  • Acts 7:52 (5 votes)

    Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

  • Jeremiah 26:20 (4 votes)

    And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

  • Jeremiah 26:24 (4 votes)

    Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

  • Jeremiah 5:3 (4 votes)

    O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  • Isaiah 1:5 (4 votes)

    Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.