In Context

1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 |Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, |I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

3 Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,|' says Yahweh.|

4 Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

5 Thus says Yahweh, |What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'

Jeremiah 2:4 in Other Translations