Jeremiah 2:29-37 (New International Version)

 ²⁹ "Why do you bring charges against me?
       You have all rebelled against me,"
       declares the LORD.

 ³⁰ "In vain I punished your people;
       they did not respond to correction.
       Your sword has devoured your prophets
       like a ravening lion.

 ³¹ "You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD :
       "Have I been a desert to Israel
       or a land of great darkness?
       Why do my people say, 'We are free to roam;
       we will come to you no more'?

 ³² Does a maiden forget her jewelry,
       a bride her wedding ornaments?
       Yet my people have forgotten me,
       days without number.

 ³³ How skilled you are at pursuing love!
       Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

 ³⁴ On your clothes men find
       the lifeblood of the innocent poor,
       though you did not catch them breaking in.
       Yet in spite of all this

 ³⁵ you say, 'I am innocent;
       he is not angry with me.'
       But I will pass judgment on you
       because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

 ³⁶ Why do you go about so much,
       changing your ways?
       You will be disappointed by Egypt
       as you were by Assyria.

 ³⁷ You will also leave that place
       with your hands on your head,
       for the LORD has rejected those you trust;
       you will not be helped by them.