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32 Does a girl forget her jewelry
    or a bride her sash?
Yet for days beyond number
    my people have forgotten me.
33 How well you direct your course
    in the pursuit of love.
Even wanton women have profited
    from their observance of your ways.
34 On your clothing can be found
    the life-blood of the innocent poor,
    whom you never caught breaking into a house.
Despite all this,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:34 An allusion to sacrifices of children: see Jer 7:31. It was permissible to kill thieves caught in the act (see Ex 22:1).