Jeremiah 2:29-31

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁹ “Why do you complain against me?
    You have all rebelled against me,
                says the Lord.
³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children,
    they took no correction;
your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.
³¹ And you, O generation, heed the word of the Lord.
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 no more to thee’?