Jeremiah

¹the Lord’s word came to me, saying, ²“Go, and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘the Lord says,“I remember for you the kindness of your youth,the love of your weddings;how you went after me in the wilderness,in a land that was not sown. ³Israel was holiness to the Lord,the first fruits of his increase.All who devour him will be held guilty.Evil will come on them,”’ says the Lord.” ⁴Hear the Lord’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel! ⁵the Lord says,“What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me,that they have gone far from me,and have walked after worthless vanity,and have become worthless? ⁶They didn’t say, ‘Where is the Lord who 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 one passed through,and where no man lived?’