TSK · Jeremiah 12:2

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.

For though I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, planted you in the land, I now decree that disaster will come on you because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal.”

He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.