In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
En vain ai-je frappé vos enfants; Ils n'ont point eu égard à la correction; Votre glaive a dévoré vos prophètes, Comme un lion destructeur.
KJV
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)
de qualibus illa vox conquerentis Dei est: Frustra percussi filios tuos, disciplinam non receperunt (Jer. II, 30) . Quod genus miser Antiochus et Herodes incurrit. Nam quod diversis [Col. 0523D] cultibus, quibus utique diversitas poenarum debetur, aut per ignorantiam, aut per fr…
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