²⁹ Why do you complain against me?
    You have all rebelled against me,
            says the Lord.^(A)
30 In vain I have struck down your children;
    they accepted no correction.
Your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.^(B)
31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord!^[a]
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 to you no more”?^(C)