Jeremiah 2:29-31

The Voice

²⁹    Why are you leveling charges against Me?
        You are the unfaithful one here.
    You have all pulled away from Me.
³⁰    I tried to discipline your sons, but it didn’t work; they wouldn’t listen.
        You destroyed the prophets I sent to speak truth to you.
    You devoured them as a lion does his prey.

³¹People of this generation, consider again the word of the Eternal.

Eternal One: Have I been a barren wasteland to Israel with nothing to offer?
        Am I no more than a land cloaked in darkness to them?
    Why do My own people say to Me,
        “We would rather wander where we want than come to You”?

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