Jeremiah 2:31–37

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’?

32 Can 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.

34 Also 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.

35 zYet 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.’

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

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

37 Indeed 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.