King James Version (KJV)
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.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 2
But 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.
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
O 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?
Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
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