Jeremiah 2:4-8

New King James Version

^(A)“What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
^(B)Have followed ^[a]idols,
And have become idolaters?
⁶ Neither did they say, ‘Where is the Lord,
Who ^(C)brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through ^(D)the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and pits,
Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no one dwelt?’
⁷ I brought you into ^(E)a bountiful country,
To eat its fruit and its goodness.
But when you entered, you ^(F)defiled My land
And made My heritage an abomination.
⁸ The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who handle the ^(G)law did not know Me;
The rulers also transgressed against Me;
^(H)The prophets prophesied by Baal,
And walked after things that do not profit.