26. “As a thief feels ashamed when he’s caught,so the nation of Israel will feel ashamed.Their kings, princes, priests,and prophets will also feel ashamed.
27. You call wood your father.You call stone your mother.You’ve turned your backs, not your faces, to me.But when you’re in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.
28. Where are the gods that you made for yourselves?Let them come and rescue you when you’re in trouble.You have as many gods as you have cities, Judah!
29. “Why do you complain about me?All of you have rebelled against me,” declares the Lord.
30. “I have punished your children without results.They didn’t respond to correction.You killed my prophets like a raging lion.
31. “Consider the word of the Lord, people of this generation.Haven’t I been a desert, a land of thick darkness, for Israel?Why do my people say that they are free to wander aroundand no longer come to me?
32. A young woman can’t forget her jewelry or a bride her veils.Yet, my people have forgotten me for countless days.
33. You carefully planned ways to look for love.You taught your ways to wicked women.
34. You have the blood from poor and innocent peopleon your clothes.You didn’t kill them for breaking into your home.
35. In spite of all this you say, ‘I’m innocent.God will turn his anger from me,because I haven’t sinned.’
36. You change your mind so easily.You will be put to shame by Egyptas you were put to shame by Assyria.