They didn't ask, 'Where is God,
who brought us out of the land of Egypt,
who led us through the desert,
through a land of wastes and ravines,
through a land of drought and death-dark shadows,
through a land where no one travels
and where no one ever lived?'
I brought you into a fertile land to enjoy its fruit and all its good things;
but when you entered you defiled my land
and made my heritage loathsome.