3. Israel was set apart for the Lord.It was the best part of the harvest.All who devoured it became guilty,and disaster struck them,’” declares the Lord.
4. Listen to the word of the Lord, descendants of Jacob,all the families in the nation of Israel.
5. This is what the Lord says:What did your ancestors find wrong with methat they went so far away from me?They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
6. They didn’t ask, “Where is the Lord,who brought us from Egypt?He led us through the desert,through a wasteland and its pits,a land of drought and the shadow of death.No one lives there or travels there.”