28. “Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? When you are in trouble, let them save you — if they can! Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities.
29. What is your complaint? Why have you rebelled against me?
30. I punished you, but it did no good; you would not let me correct you. Like a raging lion, you have murdered your prophets.
31. People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Have I been like a desert to you, like a dark and dangerous land? Why, then, do you say that you will do as you please, that you will never come back to me?
32. Does a young woman forget her jewellery, or a bride her wedding dress? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can be counted.