Jeremiah 2:23–25

23 How 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,

24 a wild donkeye at homeA in the wilderness.

She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.

Who can control her passion?

All who look for her will not become weary;

they will find her in her mating season.B

25 Keep your feet from going bare

and your throat from thirst.

But you say, “It’s hopeless;f

I love strangers,g

and I will continue to follow them.”