Jeremiah 2:29-31

Common English Bible

²⁹ Why would you bring charges against me?
You have all rebelled against me,
        declares the Lord.
³⁰ I have disciplined your children in vain;
    they have rejected my correction.
You have devoured your prophets
    like a hungry lion.
³¹ People of this generation, listen closely to the Lord’s word:
Have I been a wasteland to Israel
    or a land of dense darkness?
Why then do my people say,
    “We have wandered far away;
    we’ll come to you no longer”?