Jeremiah 2:28–37

²⁸But ^qwhere are your gods that you have made for yourselves?

Let them arise,

If they ^rcan save you in the time of your ⁴trouble;

For ^saccording to the number of your cities

Are your gods, O Judah.

²⁹“Why will you plead with Me?

You all have transgressed against Me,” says the Lord.

³⁰“In vain I have ^tchastened your children;

They ^ureceived no correction.

Your sword has ^vdevoured your prophets

Like a destroying lion.

³¹“O generation, see the word of the Lord!

Have I been a wilderness to Israel,

Or a land of darkness?

Why do My people say, ‘We ⁵are lords;

^wWe will come no more to You’?

³²Can a virgin forget her ornaments,

Or a bride her attire?

Yet My people ^xhave forgotten Me days without number.

³³“Why do you beautify your way to seek love?

Therefore you have also taught

The wicked women your ways.

³⁴Also on your skirts is found

^yThe blood of the lives of the poor innocents.

I have not found it by ⁶secret search,

But plainly on all these things.

^35zYet you say, ‘Because I am innocent,

Surely His anger shall turn from me.’

Behold, ^aI will plead My case against you,

^bBecause you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

^36cWhy do you gad about so much to change your way?

Also ^dyou shall be ashamed of Egypt ^eas you were ashamed of Assyria.

³⁷Indeed you will go forth from him

With your hands on ^fyour head;

For the Lord has rejected your trusted allies,

And you will ^gnot prosper by them.