Jeremiah 2:1–7

Judah Transgresses Against Yahweh

¹Now the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

²“Go and ^acall out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh,

“I remember concerning you the ^blovingkindness of your youth,

The love of your betrothals,

^cYour walking after Me in the wilderness,

Through a land not sown.

³“Israel was ^aholy to Yahweh,

The ^bfirst of His produce.

^cAll who ate of it became guilty;

Evil came upon them,” declares Yahweh.’”

⁴Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

⁵Thus says Yahweh,

“^aWhat injustice did your fathers find in Me,

That they went far from Me

And walked after ^bvanity and became vain?

⁶“They did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh

Who ^abrought us up out of the land of Egypt,

Who ^bled us through the wilderness,

Through a land of deserts and of pits,

Through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,

Through a land that no one crossed

And where no man inhabited?’

⁷“I brought you into the ^afruitful land

To eat its fruit and its good things.

But you came and ^bdefiled My land,

And My inheritance you made an abomination.