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Jeremiah 2:20-28

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20“For long ago I broke your yoke

And tore off your restraints;

But you said, ‘I will not serve!’

For on every high hill

And under every leafy tree

You have lain down as a prostitute.

21“Yet I planted you as a choice vine,

A completely faithful seed.

How then have you turned yourself before Me

Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

22“Although you wash yourself with lye

And use much soap,

The stain of your guilt is before Me,” declares the Lord God.

23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,

I have not gone after the Baals’?

Look at your way in the valley!

Know what you have done!

You are a swift young camel running about senselessly on her ways,

24A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness,

That sniffs the wind in her passion.

Who can turn her away in her mating season?

None who seek her will grow weary;

In her month they will find her.

25“Keep your feet from being bare,

And your throat from thirst;

But you said, ‘It is hopeless!

No! For I have loved strangers,

And I will walk after them.’

26“Like the shame of a thief when he is discovered,

So the house of Israel is shamed;

They, their kings, their leaders,

Their priests, and their prophets,

27Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’

And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’

For they have turned their backs to Me,

And not their faces;

But in the time of their trouble they will say,

‘Arise and save us!’

28“But where are your gods

Which you made for yourself?

Let them arise, if they can save you

In the time of your trouble!

For as many as the number of your cities

Are your gods, Judah.