Jeremiah 2:29-31

New Living Translation

²⁹ Why do you accuse me of doing wrong?
    You are the ones who have rebelled,”
    says the Lord.
³⁰ “I have punished your children,
    but they did not respond to my discipline.
You yourselves have killed your prophets
    as a lion kills its prey.

³¹ “O my people, listen to the words of the Lord!
    Have I been like a desert to Israel?
    Have I been to them a land of darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘At last we are free from God!
    We don’t need him anymore!’