²³ “How can you say, ‘I have not defiled myself,
    I have not gone after the Baals?’
Look at your way in the valley,
    know what you have done.
You are a young she-camel,
    interweaving her ways.
²⁴ A wild ass accustomed to the desert,^[a]
    in the desire of her soul.
She gasps for wind in her rutting time.
    Who can quell^[b] her lust?
All those who seek her will not grow weary,
    in her month they will find her.
²⁵ Restrain your foot from being barefoot,
    and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless.
    No! For I have loved strangers,
    and after them I will go.’^[c]