Jeremiah 2:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ This is what the Lord says:
“Do you think that I was not fair to your ancestors?
    Is that why they turned away from me?
Your ancestors worshiped worthless idols,
    and they became worthless themselves.
⁶ Your ancestors did not say,
    ‘The Lord brought us out of Egypt.
He led us through the desert,
    through a dry and rocky land.
He led us through a dark and dangerous land.
    No one lives there;
    people don’t even travel through that land.
But the Lord led us through that land.
    So where is he now?’

⁷ “I brought you into a good land,
    a land filled with many good things.
I did this so that you could eat the fruit and crops that grow there.
    But you only made my land ‘dirty.’
I gave that land to you,
    but you made it a bad place.