³¹ Evil generation,^(A)
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?^(B)
Why do my people claim,
“We will go where we want;^[a]
we will no longer come to you”?

⁴⁷ Therefore, look, the days are coming^(A)
when I will punish Babylon’s carved images.^(B)
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.^(C)

⁴ I will have no compassion on her children^(A)
because they are the children of promiscuity.
⁵ Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.^(B)
For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,^(C)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”^(D)