30 In vain have I smitten your children,

they took no correction;

your own sword devoured your prophets

like a ravening lion.

31 And you, O generation, heed 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 thee’?

32 Can a maiden forget her ornaments,

or a bride her attire?

Yet my people have forgotten me

days without number.