Jeremiah 2:4–13

⁴Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel:

⁵Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

⁶And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?

⁷And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.

⁸The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

⁹Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.

¹⁰Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this.

¹¹If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

¹²Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.

¹³For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.