21 Yet I (A)planted you as a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the (B)degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?
22 Although you (C)wash yourself with lye
And [a]use much soap,
The (D)stain of your guilt is before Me,” declares the Lord [b]God.
23 (E)How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the (F)Baals’?
Look at your way in the (G)valley!
Know what you have done!
You are a swift young camel (H)running about senselessly on her ways,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:22 Lit acquire much soap for yourself
  2. Jeremiah 2:22 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

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