In view of what He had done for the nation in its youth, Jehovah directed these questions to the Israelites living centuries later: “What have your fathers found in me that was unjust, so that they have become far off from me, and they kept walking after the vain idol and becoming vain themselves?

Jer. 2:5, 6.

These words of Jehovah should have moved the Israelites to think seriously. What reason did their forefathers have for abandoning the Most High, starting to worship false gods, empty nonexistent deities, and becoming vain or empty themselves, persons having no spirituality?