1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 Go and cry out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the mercy of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou didst go after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord and the firstfruits of his increase; all that devour him shall be found guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel;
5 thus hath the Lord said, What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?
6 Neither did they say, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led 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 man passed through and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.