Your own sword hath devoured your prophets— That is to say, "You yourselves have put your prophets to death for reproving you." Thus Asa and Joash were put to death in the reign of Manasseh; see 1 Kings 19:1; 1 Kings 19:10. Nehemiah 9:26 and Matthew 23:34-35. Houbigant renders the last clause, As a destroying lion lays waste your habitation. And he begins the next verse, See ye the word of the Lord; &c. which may be rendered, O ye of this generation, behold ye the case of JEHOVAH. The subsequent words allude to the murmurings of the children of Israel in the wilderness. Instead of, We are lords, Houbigant reads, We will depart. The meaning of the Hebrew seems to be, "We disclaim the divine authority; we will assert our own independency."
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Jeremiah 2:30
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.