Jeremiah 2:26-37 - Israel Deserves To Be Punished
26 As the shame of the thief when he shall be found, so was the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their chiefs, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us. 28 And where thy gods which thou didst make to thee? they will arise, if they shall save thee in the time of thine evil: for from the numbering of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will ye contend against me? all ye transgressed against me, says Jehovah. 30 In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying. 31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Was I the desert to Israel? If a land of thick darkness? wherefore said my people, We had dominion, we will come no more to thee? 32 Will a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her girdles? and my people forgat me days of no numbering. 33 How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways. 34 Also in thy wings were found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: not by breaking in did I find them, but upon all these. 35 And thou wilt say, Because I was innocent his anger turned back from me. Behold me judging thee for thy saying, I sinned not 36 Why wilt thou despise greatly to do the second time thy way? also thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wert ashamed of Assur. 37 Also from this thou wilt go forth and thy hands upon thy head: for Jehovah rejected thy trusts and thou shalt not give success to them.