⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacob
and all families of the house of Israel.
⁵ This is what the Lord says:
What fault did your ancestors find in me^(A)
that they went so far from me,
followed worthless idols,^(B)
and became worthless themselves?^(C)
6 They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord^(D)
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,^(E)
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,^[a]
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”
⁷ I brought you to a fertile land^(F)
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled my land;^(G)
you made my inheritance^(H) detestable.
⁸ The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?”
The experts in the law no longer knew me,^(I)
and the rulers^(J) rebelled against me.
The prophets prophesied by^[b] Baal^(K)
and followed useless idols.^(L)