20 “For long ago aI broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every bhigh hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.
21 Yet I aplanted you a choice vine,
A completely true seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the bdegenerate shoots of a foreign vine?
22 Although you awash yourself with lye
And use much soap,
The bstain of your iniquity is before Me,” declares Lord Yahweh.
23 “aHow can you say, ‘I am not defiled;
I have not walked after the bBaals’?
Look at your way in the cvalley!
Know what you have done!
You are a swift young camel dentangling her ways,
24 A awild donkey accustomed to the wilderness,
That sniffs the wind in her passion.
In the time of her heat who can turn her away?
All who seek her will not become weary;
In her month they will find her.
25 Keep your feet from being barefoot
And your throat from thirst;
But you said, ‘aIt is hopeless!
No! For I have bloved strangers,
And after them I will walk.’