Your Broken Cisterns Will Never Quench Your Thirst, Jeremiah 2:1-11

“I remember the devotion of your youth,
    your love as a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
    in a land not sown.
³ Israel was holy to the Lord,
    the firstfruits of his harvest.
All who ate of it incurred guilt;
    disaster came upon them,
declares the Lord.”

“What wrong did your fathers find in me
    that they went far from me,
and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
⁶ They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord
    who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us in the wilderness,
    in a land of deserts and pits,
in a land of drought and deep darkness,
    in a land that none passes through,
    where no man dwells?’
⁷ And I brought you into a plentiful land
    to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, you defiled my land
    and made my heritage an abomination.
⁸ The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
    Those who handle the law did not know me;
the shepherds^[a] transgressed against me;
    the prophets prophesied by Baal
    and went after things that do not profit.

⁹ “Therefore I still contend with you,
declares the Lord,
    and with your children’s children I will contend.
¹⁰ For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see,
    or send to Kedar and examine with care;
    see if there has been such a thing.
¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods,
    even though they are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory
    for that which does not profit.