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30 I have struck down your children in vain;
they would not accept discipline.(A)
Your own sword has devoured your prophets(B)
like a ravaging lion.
31 Evil generation,(C)
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?(D)
Why do my people claim,
‘We will go where we want;[a]
we will no longer come to you’?

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Footnotes

  1. 2:31 Or ‘We have taken control, or ‘We can roam