28 Where then are the gods you made for yourselves?Let them come if they can save youwhen you are in trouble!For you, Judah, have as many godsas you have towns.
29 ‘Why do you bring charges against me?You have all rebelled against me,’declares the Lord.
30 ‘In vain I punished your people;they did not respond to correction.Your sword has devoured your prophetslike a ravenous lion.
31 ‘You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord:‘Have I been a desert to Israelor a land of great darkness?Why do my people say, “We are free to roam;we will come to you no more”?
32 Does a young woman forget her jewellery,a bride her wedding ornaments?Yet my people have forgotten me,days without number.
33 How skilled you are at pursuing love!Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.
34 On your clothes is foundthe lifeblood of the innocent poor,though you did not catch them breaking in.Yet in spite of all this