rsv Jeremiah:2:29-35
rsv@Jeremiah:2:29 @ "Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:31 @ And you, O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, `We are free, we will come no more to thee'?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:32 @ Can a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:33 @ "How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:34 @ Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
rsv@Jeremiah:2:35 @ you say, `I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, `I have not sinned.'