29. Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
30. In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31. O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
32. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33. How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
34. Also, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: I have not found it at the place of breaking in, but upon all these.
35. Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
36. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.