Jeremiah 2:20-22

Lexham English Bible

²⁰ “For from long ago you have broken your yoke,
    you tore to pieces your bonds.
And you said, ‘I will not serve!’
    But on every high hill and under every leafy tree
    you were lying down as a prostitute.
²¹ Yet I planted you as a choice vine,
    all of it a seed of trustworthiness.
How then have you altered before me
    into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine?
²² For if you wash with natron,
    and you use much soap,^[a]
your guilt is sticking as a stain before^[b] me,”
    declares^[c] the Lord Yahweh.