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29 Why do you strive with Me?
    You have all rebelled against Me.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.

30 “In vain I struck your children.
        They took no correction.
    Your sword devoured your prophets
        like a ravaging lion.”
31 You, generation, heed Adonai’s word!
    “Have I been a wilderness to Israel
        or a land of thick darkness?
    Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam.
        We won’t come to You any more’?

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29 “Why do you bring charges against me?
    You have all(A) rebelled against me,”
declares the Lord.
30 “In vain I punished your people;
    they did not respond to correction.(B)
Your sword has devoured your prophets(C)
    like a ravenous lion.

31 “You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord:

“Have I been a desert to Israel
    or a land of great darkness?(D)
Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam;
    we will come to you no more’?(E)

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