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Jeremiah 2:29-34 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

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.

33. You certainly know how to chase after lovers. Even the worst of women can learn from you.

34. Your clothes are stained with the blood of the poor and innocent, not with the blood of burglars.“But in spite of all this,

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