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In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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An Unresponsive Heart
Commentators explain that God's statement, "In vain have I smitten your children," reveals a people who were completely unresponsive to divine correction. John Calvin notes that God had tried not only words but also "scourges and chastisements," yet the people remained incurable. This highlights the profound danger of a hardened heart that refuses to learn from God's discipline.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your own sword has detoured your prophets - An allusion probably to Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16). Death was the usual fate …
19th Century
Anglican
Your own sword hath devoured your prophets. — So in the long reign of Manasseh, the prophets who rebuked him had to do so…
Baptist
So far from accepting God's rebukes in the right spirit, and forsaking their idol gods, they even turned upon the Lord's messengers and put his pro…
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16th Century
Protestant
Some interpret the beginning of this verse as if the meaning were—that God chastised the Jews on account of their folly, because they accustomed th…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In vain have I smitten your children Or, "for vanity" {g}; for vain speaking, for making vain oaths and vows; so it …
The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he shows their stubbornness, in that they are not corrected by discipline.
He is astonished at their excuse: Why do you …
