Jeremiah 2:3 BBE

¹  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²  Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

³  Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

⁴  Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:

⁵  These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?