Leaders who did not seek

4Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.

5Thus says Yahweh: What wrong did your fathers find in me, that they went far from me, and went after vanity, and became vain?

6They did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of desert plain and pit, through a land of drought and deep darkness, through a land where no man passed through and no human dwelt?’

7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its goodness, but when you came in, you defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.

8The priests did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds rebelled against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.