29. Why do you strive with Me? You have all rebelled against Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
30. “In vain I struck your children. They took no correction. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.”
31. You, generation, heed Adonai’s word! “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam. We won’t come to You any more’?
32. Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me, days without number.
33. How clever are your ways of seeking love. Therefore you even taught wicked women your ways.