Jeremiah 2:5-7

EasyEnglish Bible

‘I had done nothing wrong against your ancestors,
    but they turned away from me.
Instead, they worshipped useless idols.
    So they themselves became useless.
⁶ They did not think to themselves,
    “Where is the Lord?
    We should ask him to help us.
He brought us safely out of Egypt.
    He led us through the wilderness.
It was a place with dry sand and deep holes.
    There was no water there and it was dangerous.
Nobody lives in that desert,
    and nobody even travels through it.”
⁷ But I, the Lord, brought you to a good land.
    It was a place where fruit grew on trees.
You could eat all those good things,
    as well as the crops that you grew there.
You came into the land that I had promised to give to you.
    But you spoiled it with your sins.
    You made it a disgusting place.