Jeremiah 2:29-31

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁹ Why do you complain against me?
    You have all rebelled against me,
says the Lord.
³⁰ In vain I have struck down your children;
    they accepted no correction.
Your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.
³¹ And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord!^[a]
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
    we will come to you no more’?