Jeremiah 2:5-13 Thus hath said the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they went away far from me, and walked after vanity, and became vain?

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ Thus hath said the Lord, What fault did your fathers find in me, that they went away far from me, and walked after vanity, and became vain? ⁶ That they said not, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of wildness, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land through which no one had passed, and where no man had dwelt? ⁷ And I brought you into the land of fruitful fields, to eat its fruit and its goodly products; but ye came and ye made unclean my land, and my heritage ye rendered an abomination. ⁸ The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied in the name of Ba’al, and after things that cannot profit did they walk. ⁹ Therefore will I contend yet farther with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I contend. ¹⁰ For pass over to the isles of the Chittites, and see; and unto Kedar send, and consider well and see if any thing like this hath happened. ¹¹ Hath a nation exchanged its gods, which are yet no gods? and still my people hath exchanged its glory for that which can not profit. ¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and let your hair stand at an end, be ye greatly terrified, saith the Lord. ¹³ For two evils have my people committed: me have they forsaken, the source of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.