30 (A)In vain I have struck your sons;
They did not accept discipline.
Your (B)sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

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30 “In vain I punished your people;
    they did not respond to correction.(A)
Your sword has devoured your prophets(B)
    like a ravenous lion.

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30 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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Yet when Jeremiah finished speaking everything that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “(A)You must die! Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be (B)in ruins, without inhabitant’?” And (C)all the people gathered to Jeremiah at the house of the Lord.

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But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded(A) him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized(B) him and said, “You must die!(C) Why do you prophesy in the Lord’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?”(D) And all the people crowded(E) around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

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Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

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31 So you testify against yourselves, that you (A)are [a]sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:31 Or descendants

31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.(A)

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31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

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