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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.
Jeremiah 2:30 — KJV
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Jeremiah 2:30
King James Version (KJV)
“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
Jeremiah 2:30
Verse 30 of 37
Commentary
Commentary on Jeremiah 2:30
Theological / DevotionalIn vain. Verses 30-32 re-emphasize the thought (see v. 5) that God is in no way to be blamed for Judah’s revolt.
Your children. Here the children or people of Judah. The cities and communities of Judah were sometimes, as probably here, figuratively represented as mothers, and the inhabitants as the children (see Lev. 19:18; Joel 3:4-6; Zech. 9:13).
Your prophets. The men who had been sent to reprove their follies and exhort them to amend their ways (see 2 Chron. 36:15, 16; Neh. 9:26; Matt. 23:29-31; Acts 7:52). The height of this violence against God’s messengers came during the half century of Manasseh’s reign (2 Kings 21:16). Isaiah was one of the first of the prophetic martyrs to fall (PK 382; EGW, Supplementary Material, on Isa. 1:1).
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