32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number. 33 How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways. 34 Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
Jeremiah 2:32–34
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