Jeremiah 2:21-23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²¹ Yet I planted you as a choice vine
    from the purest stock.
How then did you turn degenerate
    and become a wild vine?^(A)
22 Though you wash yourself with lye
    and use much soap,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,
            says the Lord God.^(B)
23 How can you say, “I am not defiled;
    I have not gone after the Baals”?
Look at your way in the valley;
    know what you have done:
a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,^(C)