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Jeremiah 2:23

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23–24“How dare you tell me, ‘I’m not stained by sin.

I’ve never chased after the Baal sex gods’!

Well, look at the tracks you’ve left behind in the valley.

How do you account for what is written in the desert dust—

Tracks of a camel in heat, running this way and that,

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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,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

How can you protest, “I am not defiled;

I have not followed the Baals”?

Look at your behavior in the valley;

acknowledge what you have done.

You are a swift young camel

twisting and turning on her way,

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;