Jeremiah 2:2-5

Living Bible

² Go and shout this in Jerusalem’s streets: This is what the Lord says! I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren deserts. ³ In those days Israel was a holy people, the first of my children.^[a] All who harmed them were counted deeply guilty, and great evil fell on anyone who touched them.

^4-5 O Israel, says the Lord, why did your fathers desert me? What sin did they find in me that turned them away and changed them into fools who worship idols?