Jeremiah 2:21-23

New International Version

²¹I had planted^(A) you like a choice vine^(B)
    of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
    into a corrupt,^(C) wild vine?
²²Although you wash^(D) yourself with soap^(E)
    and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.^(F)
²³“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;^(G)
    I have not run after the Baals’?^(H)
See how you behaved in the valley;^(I)
    consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
    running^(J) here and there,

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Jeremiah 2:21-23

King James Version

²¹Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

²³How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

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Jeremiah 2:21-23

New King James Version

²¹Yet I had ^(A)planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into ^(B)the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
²²For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is ^(C)marked^[a] before Me,” says the Lord God.

²³“How^(D) can you say, ‘I am not ^[b]polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,

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