28 But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For according to the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah.
29 Why do you complain to me? All of you have rebelled against me,” declares Yahweh.
30 “For in vain I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion.
31 O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We roam about freely, we will not come again to you’?
32 Can a young woman forget her ornaments? Or a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 How well you do on your way to seek love! Therefore even to the wicked woman you can teach your ways.
34 Also on your skirts is found the blood of the life of the innocent, the poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these things,