Jeremiah 2:21-23

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²¹ Yet I planted you a choice vine,
    wholly of pure seed.
How then have you turned degenerate
    and become a wild vine?
²² Though you wash yourself with lye
    and use much soap,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,
                says the Lord God.
²³ How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,
    I have not gone after the Ba′als’?
Look at your way in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,