Jer 2:5, 31 | ESV | STEP | Thus says the Lord : What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness , and became worthless ?

Jeremiah 2:5

5 Thus says the Lord:

^a“What wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
^band went after ^cworthlessness, and became worthless?

Jeremiah 2:31

31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?