Jeremiah 2:20-22

World English Bible

²⁰ “For long ago I broke off your yoke,
    and burst your bonds.
You said, ‘I will not serve;’
    for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself,
    playing the prostitute.
²¹ Yet I had planted you a noble vine,
    a pure and faithful seed.
    How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
²² For though you wash yourself with lye,
    and use much soap,
    yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.