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30 In vain have I smitten your children;
they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your prophets,
like a destroying lion.

31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?
a land of darkness?
wherefore say my people, We are lords;
we will come no more unto thee?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?
yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

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