Jeremiah 2:1-13

New American Standard Bible 1995

“I remember concerning you the ^[a](B)devotion of your youth,
The love of your betrothals,
^(C)Your following after Me in the wilderness,
Through a land not sown.
³ “Israel was ^(D)holy to the Lord,
The ^(E)first of His harvest.
^(F)All who ate of it became guilty;
Evil came upon them,” declares the Lord.’”

“^(G)What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after ^(H)emptiness and became empty?
⁶ “They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord
Who ^(I)brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who ^(J)led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of ^[b]deep darkness,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no man dwelt?’
⁷ “I brought you into the ^(K)fruitful land
To eat its fruit and its good things.
But you came and ^(L)defiled My land,
And My inheritance you made an abomination.
⁸ “The ^(M)priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who handle the law ^(N)did not know Me;
The ^[c]rulers also transgressed against Me,
And the ^(O)prophets prophesied by Baal
And walked after ^(P)things that did not profit.