And he said, Thus says the Lord: I remembered the mercy of your youth and the love of your completion, when you followed after me in the holy Israel, says the Lord
And they did not say, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in a land of barren and impassable places, in a land of waterless and fruitless places, in a land in which no one passed through in it, and no son of man dwelt there?
And I brought you into Carmel to eat its fruit and its good things, and you entered and defiled my land, and you made my inheritance into an abomination.
The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those holding fast to the law did not know me, and the shepherds acted impiously against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after what profited nothing.
For my people have done two evil things: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
Against him lions roared, and they gave their voice, who made his land into a wilderness, and his cities were dug down, because of not being inhabited.
And now what is there for you and the way of Egypt, to drink water of Geon? and what is there for you and the way of the Assyrians, to drink water of rivers?
Your apostasy will discipline you, and your wickedness will reprove you. Know then and see that it is bitter for you to leave me, says the Lord your God, and I did not take pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.
For from of old you broke your yoke, you tore apart your bonds, and you said, I will not serve; but I will go upon every high hill and under every shady tree; there I will be poured out in my prostitution.
How will you say, I was not defiled and I did not go after Baal? See your ways in the valley, and know what you have done. In the evening her voice wailed. Her ways.
She widened herself over the waters of the wilderness; in the desires of her soul she was carried by the wind. She was given over; who will turn her back? All who seek her will not weary; in her humiliation they will find her.
Turn your foot from a rough road and your throat from thirst; but she said, I will strengthen myself, for she loved strangers, and after them she was going.
As the shame of a thief when he is caught, so the sons of Israel shall be put to shame, they themselves and their kings and their rulers and their priests and their prophets.
to the wood they said, For you are my father, and to the stone, You begot me; and they turned to me their back and not their faces, and in the time of their evils they will say, Rise up and save us
And where are your gods, whom you made for yourself? If they will rise up and save you in the time of your affliction, for according to the number of your cities were your gods, Judah, and according to the number of the ways of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.
Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Was I a wilderness to Israel, or a land laid waste? Why has my people said, We shall not be mastered, and we shall no longer come to you?