25 Don’t run until your feet are bare and your throats are dry.But you say that it’s useless.You love foreign gods and follow them.
26 “As a thief feels ashamed when he’s caught,so the nation of Israel will feel ashamed.Their kings, princes, priests,and prophets will also feel ashamed.
27 You call wood your father.You call stone your mother.You’ve turned your backs, not your faces, to me.But when you’re in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.
28 Where are the gods that you made for yourselves?Let them come and rescue you when you’re in trouble.You have as many gods as you have cities, Judah!
29 “Why do you complain about me?All of you have rebelled against me,” declares the Lord.
30 “I have punished your children without results.They didn’t respond to correction.You killed my prophets like a raging lion.
31 “Consider the word of the Lord, people of this generation.Haven’t I been a desert, a land of thick darkness, for Israel?Why do my people say that they are free to wander aroundand no longer come to me?