Jer 2:30 | NETfull | STEP | “It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Jeremiah 2:30

30 “It did no good for me to punish your people.
They did not respond to such correction.
You slaughtered your prophets
like a voracious lion.” ^{▼▼ Heb “Your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.” However, the reference to the sword in this and many similar idioms is merely idiomatic for death by violent means.}