22 Although you wash yourself with soap
    and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,’
declares the Sovereign Lord.
23 ‘How can you say, “I am not defiled;
    I have not run after the Baals”?
See how you behaved in the valley;
    consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
    running here and there,
24 a wild donkey accustomed to the desert,
    sniffing the wind in her craving –
    in her heat who can restrain her?
Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves;
    at mating time they will find her.

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