Jeremiah 2:31-37

New International Version

“Have I been a desert to Israel
    or a land of great darkness?^(A)
Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam;
    we will come to you no more’?^(B)
32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry,
    a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten^(C) me,
    days without number.
³³ How skilled you are at pursuing^(D) love!
    Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.
³⁴ On your clothes is found
    the lifeblood^(E) of the innocent poor,
    though you did not catch them breaking in.^(F)
Yet in spite of all this
³⁵     you say, ‘I am innocent;^(G)
    he is not angry with me.’
But I will pass judgment^(H) on you
    because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’^(I)
36 Why do you go about so much,
    changing^(J) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt^(K)
    as you were by Assyria.
³⁷ You will also leave that place
    with your hands on your head,^(L)
for the Lord has rejected those you trust;
    you will not be helped^(M) by them.