Jeremiah 2:28–37

²⁸But where are your gods that you made for yourself?

Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble.

For according to the number of your towns

are your gods, O Judah.

²⁹Why do you complain to me?

All of you have rebelled against me,”^k declares^l Yahweh.

³⁰“For in vain^m I have struck your children.

They accepted no discipline.

Your sword devoured your prophets,

like a raveningⁿ lion.

³¹O generation, you see the word of Yahweh.

Have I been a desert^o to Israel? Or a land of great darkness?

Why do my people say, ‘We roam about freely,

we will not come again to you’?

³²Can a young woman forget her ornaments?^p Or a bride her sashes?

Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

³³How well you do on your way to seek love!

Therefore^q even to the wicked woman you can teach your ways.

³⁴Also on your skirts is found

the blood of the life of the innocent, the poor.

You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house.

But in spite of all these things,

³⁵yet you say, ‘But I am innocent,

surely his anger has turned away from me.’

Look, I am entering into judgment with you

because of your saying, ‘I have not sinned.’

³⁶How you go about so much changing your way!

Also by Egypt you will be put to shame,

just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

³⁷Also from there you will come out

with your hands on your head,

for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust,^r

and you will not prosper through them.