Jeremiah 2:30-32

Lexham English Bible

³⁰ “For in vain^[a] I have struck your children.
    They accepted no discipline.
Your sword devoured your prophets,
    like a ravening^[b] lion.
³¹ O generation, you see the word of Yahweh.
    Have I been a desert^[c] to Israel? Or a land of great darkness?
Why do my people say, ‘We roam about freely,
    we will not come again to you’?
³² Can a young woman forget her ornaments?^[d] Or a bride her sashes?
    Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.