Jeremiah 2:29-37

29"Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the Lord.

30In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

31And 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'?

32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

33"How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

34Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

35you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'

36How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

37From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.