3 Israel is holy to the Lord,and the first fruits of His harvest.All who eat of it will become guilty;disaster will come upon them,says the Lord.
4 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacoband all the families of the house of Israel.
5 Thus says the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found inMe,that they have gone far from Me,and have walked after vanityand have become vain?
6 They did not say, “Where is the Lordwho brought us up out of the land of Egypt,who 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 lived?”
7 And I brought you into a plentiful countryto eat its fruit and its goodness.But when you entered, you defiled My landand made My heritage an abomination.
8 The priests did not say,“Where is the Lord?”And those who handle the law did not know Me;the shepherds also transgressed against Me,and the prophets prophesied by Baaland walked after things that do not profit.
9 Therefore I will yet contend with you,says the Lord,and with your sons’ sons I will contend.