Jeremiah 2:21-23

World English Bible

²¹ Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
    a pure and faithful seed.
    How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
²² For though you wash yourself with lye,
    and use much soap,
    yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
²³ “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled.
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley.
    Know what you have done.
You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,