1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

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.”