rsv Jeremiah:2:1-8
rsv@Jeremiah:2:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
rsv@Jeremiah:2:2 @ "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel was holy to the LORD, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the LORD."
rsv@Jeremiah:2:4 @ Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:6 @ They did not say, `Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'
rsv@Jeremiah:2:7 @ And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests did not say, `Where is the LORD?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Ba'al, and went after things that do not profit.