In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
All Commentaries on Jeremiah 2:30 Go To Jeremiah 2
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Prophets; Zacharias, (2 Paralipomenon xxiv. 21.) Isaias, Matthew xxiii. 34. (Calmet)
Punishment is designed by God to cause people to repent. (Worthington)