rsv Jeremiah:2:17-23
rsv@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphra'tes?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
rsv@Jeremiah: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.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:21 @ Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
rsv@Jeremiah:2:22 @ Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:23 @ 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,