Jeremiah 2:29-37
English Standard Version
29 “Why do you contend with me?
You have all transgressed against me,
declares the Lord.
30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
31 And you, O generation, behold 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 you’?
32 (C)Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
Yet (D)my people have forgotten me
days without number.
33 “How well you direct your course
to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
you have taught your ways.
34 Also on your skirts is found
(E)the lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them (F)breaking in.
Yet in spite of all these things
35 you say, ‘I am innocent;
surely his anger has turned from me.’
(G)Behold, I will bring you to judgment
for (H)saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 (I)How much you go about,
changing your way!
You shall be (J)put to shame by Egypt
as you were put to shame by Assyria.
37 From it too you will come away
with (K)your hands on your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you will not prosper by them.
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