Jeremiah 2:28–37

²⁸“But where are your ^agods

Which you made for yourself?

Let them arise, if they can ^bsave you

In the time of your ¹trouble;

For ^caccording to the number of your cities

Are your gods, O Judah.

²⁹“Why do you contend with Me?

You have ^aall transgressed against Me,” declares the Lord.

³⁰“^aIn vain I have struck your sons;

They accepted no chastening.

Your ^bsword has devoured your prophets

Like a destroying lion.

³¹“O generation, heed the word of the Lord.

Have I been a wilderness to Israel,

Or a ^aland of thick darkness?

Why do My people say, ‘^bWe are free to roam;

We will no longer come to You’?

³²“Can a virgin forget her ornaments,

Or a bride her attire?

Yet My people have ^aforgotten Me

Days without number.

³³“How well you prepare your way

To seek love!

Therefore even ¹the wicked women

You have taught your ways.

³⁴“Also on your skirts is found

The ^alifeblood of the innocent poor;

You did not find them ^bbreaking in.

But in spite of all these things,

³⁵Yet you said, ‘I am innocent;

Surely His anger is turned away from me.’

Behold, I will ^aenter into judgment with you

Because you ^bsay, ‘I have not sinned.’

³⁶“Why do you ^ago around so much

Changing your way?

Also, ^byou will be put to shame by Egypt

As you were put to shame by ^cAssyria.

³⁷“From this place also you will go out

With ^ayour hands on your head;

For the Lord has rejected ^bthose in whom you trust,

And you will not prosper with them.”