Jeremiah 2:30

In veyn Y smoot youre sones, thei resseyueden not chastisyng; youre swerd deuouride youre prophetis, youre generacioun is distried as a lioun.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

29What wolen ye stryue with me in doom? Alle ye han forsake me, seith the Lord.

31Se ye the word of the Lord, whether Y am maad a wildirnesse to Israel, ether a lond late bryngynge forth fruyt? Whi therfor seide my puple, We han go awei, we schulen no more come to thee?

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Cross References

1 Kings 19:14And he answeride, Bi feruent loue Y louede feruentli, for the Lord God of oostis; for the sones of Israel forsoken thi couenaunt; thei distrieden thin auteris, and thei killiden bi swerd thi prophetis; and Y am left aloone, and thei seken my lijf, that thei do it awey.

2 Chronicles 28:22Ferthermore also in the tyme of his angwisch he encreesside dispit ayens God; thilke kyng Achaz bi

Isaiah 9:13and the puple is not turned ayen to the Lord smytynge it, and thei souyten not the Lord of oostis.

Jeremiah 6:29The belu failide, leed is waastid in the fier, the wellere wellide in veyn; for the malices of hem ben not wastid.

Jeremiah 26:20Also Vrye, the sone of Semey, of Cariathiarym, was a man profesiynge in the name of the Lord; and he profesiede ayens this citee, and ayens this lond, bi alle the wordis of Jeremye.

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