30. In vain have I struck your children;they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophetslike a ravening lion.
31. And you, O generation, behold 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 you’?
32. Can a virgin forget her ornaments,or a bride her attire?Yet my people have forgotten medays without number.
33. “How well you direct your courseto seek love!So that even to wicked womenyou have taught your ways.