Jeremiah 2:22-24

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²² Though you wash yourself with lye
    and use much soap,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,
says the Lord God.
²³ How can you say, “I am not defiled,
    I have not gone after the Baals”?
Look at your way in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
²⁴     a wild ass at home in 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.