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29 Why do you complain to me?
    All of you have rebelled against me,”[a] declares[b] Yahweh.
30 “For in vain[c] I have struck your children.
    They accepted no discipline.
Your sword devoured your prophets,
    like a ravening[d] lion.
31 O generation, you see the word of Yahweh.
    Have I been a desert[e] to Israel? Or a land of great darkness?
Why do my people say, ‘We roam about freely,
    we will not come again to you’?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:29 Literally “broken with me”
  2. Jeremiah 2:29 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Jeremiah 2:30 Literally “the vanity”
  4. Jeremiah 2:30 Or “destroying”
  5. Jeremiah 2:31 Or “wilderness”