²⁷ your adulteries and lustful neighings,
    your shameless prostitution!^(A)
I have seen your detestable acts
    on the hills and in the fields.^(B)
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
    How long will you be unclean?”^(C)

⁷ both your sins^(A) and the sins of your ancestors,”^(B)
    says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
    and defied me on the hills,^(C)
I will measure into their laps
    the full payment^(D) for their former deeds.”

⁷ “Why should I forgive you?
    Your children have forsaken me
    and sworn^(A) by gods that are not gods.^(B)
I supplied all their needs,
    yet they committed adultery^(C)
    and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.^(D)
8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
    each neighing for another man’s wife.^(E)

²⁰ “Long ago you broke off your yoke^(A)
    and tore off your bonds;^(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’^(C)
Indeed, on every high hill^(D)
    and under every spreading tree^(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.^(F)
21 I had planted^(G) you like a choice vine^(H)
    of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
    into a corrupt,^(I) wild vine?
²² Although you wash^(J) yourself with soap^(K)
    and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.^(L)
23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;^(M)
    I have not run after the Baals’?^(N)
See how you behaved in the valley;^(O)
    consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
    running^(P) here and there,
²⁴ a wild donkey^(Q) accustomed to the desert,^(R)
    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.