29 Wherefore will [a]ye plead with me? ye all have rebelled against me, saith the Lord.

30 I have smitten your children in vain, they received no correction: your own [b]sword hath devoured your Prophets like a destroying lion.

31 O generation, take heed to the word of the Lord: have I been as a [c]wilderness unto Israel? or a land of darkness? Wherefore saith my people then, We are lords, [d]we will come no more unto thee?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:29 As though I did you injury in punishing you, seeing that your faults are so evident.
  2. Jeremiah 2:30 That is, you have killed your Prophets, that exhorted you to repentance, as Zechariah, Isaiah, etc.
  3. Jeremiah 2:31 Have I not given them abundance of all things?
  4. Jeremiah 2:31 But will trust in our own power and policy.

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