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30 In vain I struck your children;
    correction they did not take.
Your sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.(A)
31 You people of this generation,
    consider the word of the Lord:
Have I become a wilderness to Israel,
    a land of gloom?
Why then do my people say, “We have moved on,
    we will not come to you any more”?
32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry,
    a bride her sash?
Yet my people have forgotten me
    days without number.(B)

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