Yirmeyahu 2:29-3:5 ירמיהו ב׳:כ״ט-ג׳:ה׳

Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the Lord.

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Yisra᾽el? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are free; we will come no more to Thee?

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

How well thou dost direct thy path to seek love! Therefore thou hast even taught bad women thy ways.

Also in thy skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor: whom thou didst not find in the act of breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

thou sayst, Because I am innocent, surely his anger has turned from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayst, I have not sinned.

Why dost thou cheapen thyself so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Miżrayim, as thou wast ashamed of Ashshur.

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thy hands upon thy head: for the Lord has rejected those in whom thou dost trust, and thou shalt not prosper by them.

It was said, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return to her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wilt thou yet return again to me? says the Lord.

Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. On the highways hast thou sat for them, as the ῾Aravian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and thou didst have a harlot’s forehead, thou didst refuse to be ashamed.

Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?

Will he bear a grudge for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things and hast had thy way.