Jeremiah 2:1-13 ▼

1 And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying,

2 Go and call in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I remembered for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy completion, thy going after me in the desert in a land not, sown.

3 Israel is holy to Jehovah, the beginning of the produce: all consuming him shall transgress; evil shall come upon them, says Jehovah.

4 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and the families of the house of Israel:

5 Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

6 And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?

7 And I will bring you to the land of Carmel, to eat its fruit and its goodness; and ye will come and defile my land, and ye set mine inheritance for an abomination.

8 The priests said not Where is Jehovah? and they holding the law knew me not: and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went After what will not profit.

9 For this I will even contend, with you, says Jehovah, and with your sons' sons will I contend.

10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider greatly, and see whether there was like this.

11 Did a nation change their gods, and they no gods? and my people changed their glory for what will not profit.

12 Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, and shudder; be ye greatly desolate, says Jehovah.

13 For my people did two evils: they forsook me the fountain of living waters, to hew out for them wells, broken wells which will not hold water.