30   In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
shav'⁷⁷²³ nakah⁵²²¹ ben¹¹²¹ laqach³⁹⁴⁷ muwcar⁴¹⁴⁸ chereb²⁷¹⁹ 'akal³⁹⁸ nabiy'⁵⁰³⁰ shachath⁷⁸⁴³ 'ariy⁷³⁸

31   O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
dowr¹⁷⁵⁵ ra'ah⁷²⁰⁰ dabar¹⁶⁹⁷ Yhovah³⁰⁶⁸ midbar⁴⁰⁵⁷ Yisra'el³⁴⁷⁸ 'erets⁷⁷⁶ ma'phelyah³⁹⁹¹ 'amar⁵⁵⁹ `am⁵⁹⁷¹ ruwd⁷³⁰⁰ bow'⁹³⁵

32   Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
bthuwlah¹³³⁰ shakach⁷⁹¹¹ `adiy<sup>5716</sup> kallah<sup>3618</sup> qishshur<sup>7196</sup> `am⁵⁹⁷¹ shakach⁷⁹¹¹ yowm³¹¹⁷ micpar⁴⁵⁵⁷

33   Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
yatab³¹⁹⁰ derek¹⁸⁷⁰ baqash¹²⁴⁵ 'ahabah¹⁶⁰ lamad³⁹²⁵ ra`⁷⁴⁵¹ derek¹⁸⁷⁰

34   Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
kanaph³⁶⁷¹ matsa'⁴⁶⁷² dam¹⁸¹⁸ nephesh⁵³¹⁵ 'ebyown³⁴ naqiy⁵³⁵⁵ matsa'⁴⁶⁷² machtereth⁴²⁹⁰

35   Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
'amar⁵⁵⁹ naqah⁵³⁵² 'aph⁶³⁹ shuwb⁷⁷²⁵ shaphat⁸¹⁹⁹ 'amar⁵⁵⁹ chata'²³⁹⁸

36   Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
'azal²³⁵ m`od³⁹⁶⁶ shanah⁸¹³⁸ derek¹⁸⁷⁰ buwsh⁹⁵⁴ Mitsrayim⁴⁷¹⁴ buwsh⁹⁵⁴ 'Ashshuwr⁸⁰⁴

37   Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
yatsa'³³¹⁸ yad³⁰²⁷ ro'sh⁷²¹⁸ Yhovah³⁰⁶⁸ ma'ac³⁹⁸⁸ mibtach⁴⁰⁰⁹ tsalach⁶⁷⁴³

 

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