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# They would not accept discipline
Here "accept discipline" represents learning from discipline. Alternate translation: "They refused to learn from discipline" or "When I disciplined them, they refused to learn to obey me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
# Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destructive lion
God speaks of the people of Israel killing the prophets as if their sword were a lion that ate the prophets. Alternate translation: "You have killed the prophets brutally with your sword like a destructive lion" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
# destructive
capable of causing a very large amount of damage