² “Go and announce to Jerusalem,
    ‘This is what Yahweh says:
        I remember the unfailing loyalty of your youth,
            the love you had for me as a bride.
        I remember how you followed me into the desert,
            into a land that couldn’t be farmed.
³ Israel was set apart for Yahweh.
    It was the best part of the harvest.
        All who devoured it became guilty,
            and disaster struck them,’” declares Yahweh.

⁴ Listen to the word of Yahweh, descendants of Jacob,
    all the families in the nation of Israel.