V.1-4 God tenderly reminds the people that He has not forgotten their love to Him in those earlier days when He had taken them out of the land of Egypt! They obeyed and followed Him then!
V.5-8 The Lord asks what evil He had done to cause them to turn away from Him! None, of course. When they arrived in the promised land, they despised it!
V.9-17 After all God had done for them, what a shameful way they acted in turning to lifeless idols.
V.18-34 Instead of taking the deserved punishment from the Lord, they want to go down to Egypt to get help! What dreadful behavior!
V.35-37 They had the frightful spirit to say that they were innocent!