30. I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31. O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? Why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
32. Shall the virgin, perchance, forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.