Jeremiah 2:30-32

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁰ In vain I have struck down your children;
    they accepted no correction.
Your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.
³¹ And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord!^[a]
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 to you no more’?
³² Can a girl forget her ornaments,
    or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me,
    days without number.