Jeremiah 2:20-25

New King James Version

²⁰ “For of old I have ^(A)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And ^(B)you said, ‘I will not ^[a]transgress,’
When ^(C)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, ^(D)playing the harlot.
²¹ Yet I had ^(E)planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into ^(F)the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
²² For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is ^(G)marked^[b] before Me,” says the Lord God.

²³ “How^(H) can you say, ‘I am not ^[c]polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,
²⁴ A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.
²⁵ Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ^(I)‘There is no hope.
No! For I have loved ^(J)aliens, and after them I will go.’