³⁰ In vain have I ^(A)struck your children;
    they took no correction;
^(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.

³¹ And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
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 no more to you’?