Children — Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city. Correction — Instruction: though they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your sword — You have been so far from receiving instruction, that you have, by the sword, and other ways of destruction, murdered those that I have sent to reprove you.
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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.