Jeremiah 2:29-31

International Standard Version

²⁹Why do you contend with me?
    You have rebelled against me,”
        declares the Lord.
³⁰“I’ve punished your children with no results,^[a]
    they have accepted no discipline.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
    like a destroying lion.”

³¹“You, generation,
    pay attention to^[b] this message from the Lord!
Am I the desert to Israel,
    or a land of gloom?
Why do my people say, ‘We’re free to roam?
    We won’t come to you anymore.’