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Jeremiah 2:23

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23How can you protest, “I am not defiled;

I have not followed the Baals”?c

Look at your behavior in the valley;

acknowledge what you have done.d

You are a swift young camel

twisting and turning on her way,

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Cross references

  1. cJr 2:8; 9:14
  2. dGn 3:13; 1Sm 15:13; Pr 28:13; Jr 3:13; 1Jn 1:8

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,

I have not gone after the Baals’?

Look at your way in the valley;

know what you have done—

a restless young camel running here and there,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;

I have not run after the Baals’?

See how you behaved in the valley;

consider what you have done.

You are a swift she-camel

running here and there,

NLTNew Living Translation

“You say, ‘That’s not true!

I haven’t worshiped the images of Baal!’

But how can you say that?

Go and look in any valley in the land!

Face the awful sins you have done.

You are like a restless female camel

desperately searching for a mate.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“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.

KJV 1900King James Version

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;