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What does the BOOK say???

Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

"What does the BOOK say???

Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD."

Jeremiah 2: 1,2,3

You can't stop there,

v4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
v5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in ME, that they are gone far from ME, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

6 Neither said they, 'Where is the LORD That brought us up out of the land of Egypt, That led me through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

v13. For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken ME the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Our Heavenly Father divorced Israel Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also...

Nice that you point out what "evil" happens to those that "devour", but that is only a "jot" of the story.