Jeremiah 2:20-22

Revised Standard Version

²⁰ “For long ago you broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds;
    and you said, ‘I will not serve.’
Yea, upon every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you bowed down as a harlot.
²¹ Yet I planted you a choice vine,
    wholly of pure seed.
How then have you turned degenerate
    and become a wild vine?
²² Though you wash yourself with lye
    and use much soap,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,
                says the Lord God.