2 ²⁰ "For long ago you broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
and you said, 'I will not serve.'
Yea, upon every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down as a harlot.
2 ²¹ Yet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
2 ²² Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
the stain of your guilt is still before me,
says Yahweh GOD.
2 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,
2 ²⁴ a wild ass used to the wilderness,
in her heat sniffing the wind!
Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
in her month they will find her.
2 ²⁵ Keep your feet from going unshod
and your throat from thirst.
But you said, 'It is hopeless,
for I have loved strangers,
and after them I will go.'