Jer 2:30, 22:17, Lam 4:13, Mic 3:1-3, Zep 3:3 | ESV | STEP | In vain have I struck your children ; they took no correction ; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion .

Jeremiah 2:30

30 In vain have I ^astruck your children;
they took no correction;
^byour own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 22:17

17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
^cfor shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”

Lamentations 4:13

13 This was for ^dthe sins of her prophets
and ^ethe iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.

Micah 3:1-3

Rulers and Prophets Denounced

1 And I said:
^fHear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
^gIs it not for you to know justice?—
2 you ^hwho hate the good and love the evil,
ⁱwho tear the skin from off my people ^{▼▼Hebrew from off them}
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 ^kwho eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.

Zephaniah 3:3

3 ^lHer officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are ^mevening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.