Jeremiah 2:5-7

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁵ This is what the Lord says:
What did your ancestors find wrong with me
that they went so far away from me?
They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
⁶ They didn’t ask, “Where is the Lord,
who brought us from Egypt?
He led us through the desert,
through a wasteland and its pits,
a land of drought and the shadow of death.
No one lives there or travels there.”
⁷ I brought them into a fertile land
to eat its fruit and its produce.
They came and made my land unclean.^[a]
They made my property disgusting.