I remember the devotion of your youth,
    your love as a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
    in a land not sown.
³ Israel was holy to the Lord,
    the first fruits of his harvest.
All who ate of it became guilty;
    evil came upon them,
                says the Lord.”

⁷ And I brought you into a plentiful land
    to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in you defiled my land,
    and made my heritage an abomination.
⁸ The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
    Those who handle the law did not know me;
the rulers^[a] transgressed against me;
    the prophets prophesied by Ba′al,
    and went after things that do not profit.

¹² Be appalled, O heavens, at this,
    be shocked, be utterly desolate,
                says the Lord,
¹³ for my people have committed two evils:
    they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living waters,
    and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns,
    that can hold no water.