Jeremiah 2:30-31 In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ³⁰ In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying. ³¹ O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Was I the desert to Israel? If a land of thick darkness? wherefore said my people, We had dominion, we will come no more to thee?