Jeremiah:2:22-30
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,
rsv@Jeremiah: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.
rsv@Jeremiah: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.'
rsv@Jeremiah:2:26 @ "As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
rsv@Jeremiah:2:27 @ who say to a tree, `You are my father,' and to a stone, `You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, `Arise and save us!'
rsv@Jeremiah:2:28 @ But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:29 @ "Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
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