Jeremiah 2:29-31

New International Reader's Version

²⁹ “Why do you bring charges against me?
    All of you have refused to obey me,”
    announces the Lord.
³⁰ “I punished your people. But it did not do them any good.
    They did not pay attention when they were corrected.
You have killed your prophets by swords.
    You have swallowed them up like a hungry lion.

“Have I been like a desert to Israel?
    Have I been like a land of deep darkness?
Why do my people say, ‘We are free to wander.
    We won’t come to you anymore’?