Jeremiah 2:21-23

English Standard Version Anglicised

^21 (A)Yet I planted you a choice vine,
    wholly of pure seed.
^(B)How then have you turned degenerate
    and become a wild vine?
²² Though you wash yourself with lye
    and use much soap,
    ^(C)the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God.
^23 (D)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way ^(E)in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,