20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute. 21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? 22 Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
Jeremiah 2:20–22
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