Jeremiah 2:29-31

World English Bible

²⁹ “Why will you contend with me?
    You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.
³⁰ “I have struck your children in vain.
    They received no correction.
Your own sword has devoured your prophets,
    like a destroying lion.
³¹ Generation, consider Yahweh’s word.
    Have I been a wilderness to Israel?
    Or a land of thick darkness?
Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose.
    We will come to you no more’?