Jeremiah 2:30-31 In vain have I smitten your children - they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

JPS_ASV_Byz⁽ⁱ⁾ ³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children - they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. ³¹ O generation, see ye the word of the LORD: have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?