1 The word of the Lord came to me:
2 “Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:I remember the loyalty 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 firstfruits of His harvest. All who ate of it found themselves guilty; disaster came on them.”This is the Lord’s declaration.
4 Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacoband all families of the house of Israel.
5 This is what the Lord says:What fault did your fathers find in Me that they went so far from Me,followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
6 They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt,who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines,through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled throughand where no one lived? ”
7 I brought you to a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty,but after you entered, you defiled My land; you made My inheritance detestable.