Jeremiah 2:2-25 Go and call out in the ears of Yeru Shalem, saying, Thus says Yah Veh, I remember you; the mercy of your youth, the love of your betrothals - your going after me in the wilderness in a land not seeded.

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Go and call out in the ears of Yeru Shalem, saying, Thus says Yah Veh, I remember you; the mercy of your youth, the love of your betrothals - your going after me in the wilderness in a land not seeded. ³ Yisra El is holiness to Yah Veh and the firstlings of his produce: all who devour him guilt; evil comes on them, says Yah Veh. ⁴ You, hear the word of Yah Veh, O house of Yaaqov, and all the families of the house of Yisra El: ⁵ thus says Yah Veh, What wickedness found your fathers in me, that they removed afar from me and walked after vanity and became vain? ⁶ And said not, Where is Yah Veh who ascended us from the land of Misrayim? Who carried us through the wilderness - a land of plains and of chasms - a land of parch and of the shadow of death - a land where no man passed through and where no human settled? ⁷ And I bring you into a land of orchards/Karmel to eat the fruit and the goodness; and you enter and foul my land and set my inheritance an abhorrence. ⁸ The priests say not, Where is Yah Veh? and they who manipulate the torah know me not and the tenders rebel against me; and the prophets prophesy by Baal and walk after those who benefit not. ⁹ So I still plead with you, says Yah Veh - an oracle of Yah Veh and with the sons of your sons, I plead. ¹⁰ For pass over the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Qedar, and discern mightily; and see if there be such. ¹¹ Changes a goyim their elohim to a non-elohim? and my people change their honor for that which benefits not. ¹² Astonish, O you heavens, at this, and shutter; parch mightily, says Yah Veh. ¹³ For my people work two evils: they forsake me, the fountain of living waters; and hew wells - broken wells that hold no water. ¹⁴ Is Yisra El a servant? Is he house birthed? Why is he for a plunder? ¹⁵ The whelps roar on him; they give their voice; and they place his land desolate: his cities burn without settler. ¹⁶ Also the sons of Noph and Tachpanches graze your scalp. ¹⁷ Worked you not this to yourself - in that you forsook Yah Veh your Elohim the time he carried you by the way? ¹⁸ And now what is it to you in the way of Misrayim to drink the waters of Shichor? Or what is it to you in the way of Ashshur to drink the waters of the river? ¹⁹ Your own evil disciplines you and your own apostasies reprove you: so know and see that it is evil and bitter to forsake Yah Veh your Elohim, and that my fear is not in you - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh Sabaoth. ²⁰ For from eternal time I broke your yoke and tore your bonds; and you say, I serve not! when on every high hill and under every green tree you stroll, whoring. ²¹ Yet I planted you, choice, wholly a seed of truth: how then turn you on me - into the twisted plant of a strange vine? ²² But though you launder yourself with nitre, and abound with soap, yet your perversity is inscribed at my face - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. ²³ How say you, I am not fouled: I go not after Baalim? See your way in the valley; know what you worked - a swift dromedary entangling her ways; ²⁴ a wild runner discipled to the wilderness who gulps the wind at the yearning of her soul; who, in her occasion, turns her back? No one seeking her wearies themselves; in her month they find her. ²⁵ Withhold your foot from being unshod and your throat from thirst. And you say, I quit! No; I love strangers and after them I go.