MLV(i)
29 Why will you* contend with me? You* have all transgressed against me, says Jehovah.
30 In vain I have struck your* sons. They received no correction. Your* own sword has devoured your* prophets like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see you* the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to you? 32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 How you trim your way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women you have taught your ways. 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. You did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.
35 Yet you said, I am innocent. Surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you because you say, I have not sinned.
36 Why do you go around so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. 37 You will also go forth from there with your hands upon your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust. And you will not prosper with them.
31 O generation, see you* the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to you? 32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 How you trim your way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women you have taught your ways. 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. You did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.
35 Yet you said, I am innocent. Surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you because you say, I have not sinned.
36 Why do you go around so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. 37 You will also go forth from there with your hands upon your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust. And you will not prosper with them.