Jeremiah 2:4-8

International Standard Version

⁶ “They didn’t ask, ‘Where is the Lord
    who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
    through the land of desert and pits,
through the land of dryness and deep darkness,
    a land that people don’t pass through,
        and where no one lives?’
⁷ “I brought you into the fruitful land to eat its fruit
    and its good things.
But you came in, defiled my land,
    and made my inheritance into an abomination.

⁸ “The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
    and those handling the Law didn’t know me.
The rulers transgressed against me,
    the prophets prophesied by Baal,
        and they followed that which does not profit.^[b]