Jeremiah 2:4-6

Modern English Version

⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob
    and all the families of the house of Israel.

What iniquity have your fathers found in Me,
    that they have gone far from Me,
and have walked after vanity
    and have become vain?
⁶ They did not say, “Where is the Lord
    who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
    through a land of deserts and of pits,
through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,
    through a land that no man passed through and where no man lived?”