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34 On your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor,
    even though you didn’t catch them breaking in.
Yet despite all these things,
35 you say, ‘I’m innocent.
        Surely his anger has turned away from me.’”

“I’m about to bring charges against you[a]
    because you say, ‘I haven’t sinned.’
36 Why do you go about changing your mind so much?
    You will also be disappointed[b] by Egypt,
        just as you were disappointed[c] by Assyria.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:35 Lit. enter into judgment with you
  2. Jeremiah 2:36 Or put to shame
  3. Jeremiah 2:36 Or put to shame