Jeremiah 2:22-24

Good News Translation

²² Even if you washed with the strongest soap,
    I would still see the stain of your guilt.
²³ How can you say you have not defiled yourself,
    that you have never worshiped Baal?
Look how you sinned in the valley;
    see what you have done.
You are like a wild camel in heat,
    running around loose,
²⁴     rushing into the desert.^[a]
When she is in heat, who can control her?
No male that wants her has to trouble himself;
    she is always available in mating season.