Jeremiah 2:21-23

New Catholic Bible

²¹ I had planted you as a choice vine
    from the purest stock.
How then did you degenerate
    into a wild and corrupt vine?
²² Even if you would scrub yourself with lye
    and use soap in great abundance,
the stain of your guilt
    would still be clearly visible to me,
    says the Lord God.
²³ How can you say, “I am not defiled;
    I have not gone after the Baals”?
Recall your conduct in the valley;
    realize what you have done:
you have been like a restless she-camel