^{21 Ref} Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

^{22 Ref} For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.

^{23 Ref} How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

^{24 Ref} a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

^{25 Ref} Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

^{26 Ref} As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

^{27 Ref} who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

^{28 Ref} But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.

^{29 Ref} Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.

^{30 Ref} In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

^{31 Ref} Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?

^{32 Ref} Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

^{33 Ref} How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.

^{34 Ref} Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

^{35 Ref} Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.