Charles Ellicott Commentary 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." — Jeremiah 2:30 (ASV)

Your own sword hath devoured your prophets. — So in the long reign of Manasseh, the prophets who rebuked him had to do so at the risk of their lives. Isaiah, as tradition held, had been foremost among the sufferers. Much innocent blood had been shed from one end to another of Jerusalem (2 Kings 21:11–16).