29. Why would you bring charges against me?You have all rebelled against me,declares the Lord.
30. I have disciplined your children in vain;they have rejected my correction.You have devoured your prophetslike a hungry lion.
31. People of this generation, listen closely to the Lord’s word:Have I been a wasteland to Israelor a land of dense darkness?Why then do my people say,"We have wandered far away;we’ll come to you no longer"?
32. Does a young woman forget her jewelryor a bride her wedding dress?Yet you have forgotten me days without end!
33. So skilled are you at pursuing loversthat you instruct even the most wicked.