²⁹ Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. ³⁰ In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion. ³¹ O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, 'We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.' ³² Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number. ³³ What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways. ³⁴ Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these. ³⁵ And thou sayest, 'Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, 'I have not sinned.' ³⁶ What? thou art very vile to repeat thy way, Even of Egypt thou art ashamed, As thou hast been ashamed of Asshur, ³⁷ Also from this thou goest out, And thy hands on thy head, For Jehovah hath kicked at thy confidences, And thou dost not give prosperity to them!