31 O generation, see for yourselves the word of Jehovah.+

“Have I become a mere wilderness to Israel+ or a land of intense darkness? Why is it that these, my people, have said, ‘We have roamed. We shall come to you no more’?+

16 This is what Jehovah has said: “Stand still in the ways, YOU people, and see, and ask for the roadways of long ago, where, now, the good way is;+ and walk in it,+ and find ease for YOUR souls.”+ But they kept saying: “We are not going to walk.”+