Jeremiah 2:4-8 - The Unfaithfulness Of Israel's Ancestors

⁴ Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and the families of the house of Israel: ⁵ Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain? ⁶ And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there? ⁷ And I will bring you to the land of Carmel, to eat its fruit and its goodness; and ye will come and defile my land, and ye set mine inheritance for an abomination. ⁸ The priests said not Where is Jehovah? and they holding the law knew me not: and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went After what will not profit