28. But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?Let them arise,If they can save you in the time of your trouble;For according to the number of your citiesAre your gods, O Judah.
29. “Why will you plead with Me?You all have transgressed against Me,” says the Lord.
30. “In vain I have chastened your children;They received no correction.Your sword has devoured your prophetsLike a destroying lion.
31. “O generation, see the word of the Lord!Have I been a wilderness to Israel,Or a land of darkness?Why do My people say, ‘We are lords;We will come no more to You’?
32. Can a virgin forget her ornaments,Or a bride her attire?Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.
33. “Why do you beautify your way to seek love?Therefore you have also taughtThe wicked women your ways.
34. Also on your skirts is foundThe blood of the lives of the poor innocents.I have not found it by secret search,But plainly on all these things.