29. ‘Why do you bring charges against me?You have all rebelled against me,’declares the Lord.
30. ‘In vain I punished your people;they did not respond to correction.Your sword has devoured your prophetslike a ravenous lion.
31. ‘You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord:‘Have I been a desert to Israelor a land of great darkness?Why do my people say, “We are free to roam;we will come to you no more”?