Jeremiah 2:23

How dare you say, “I'm not unclean! I haven't gone to worship the Baals!” Look at what you've been doing down in the valley. Admit what you've done! You're a young female camel, racing around everywhere.

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In The King 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;

In Context

22Even bleach and plenty of soap can't get rid of your guilty stains. I still see them, declares the Lord God.

24You're a female donkey living in the desert, sniffing the wind for a mate because she's in heat. No one can control her at mating time. All those who're looking for her won't have trouble finding her when she's in heat.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:13When Samuel caught up with him, Saul said, “The Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord ordered.”

Psalms 36:2In their own eyes they're so wonderful that they can't even see their sin and do something about it.

Proverbs 28:13People who hide their sins won't succeed, but those who confess and renounce their sins will be shown kindness.

Proverbs 30:20This is the way of a woman who commits adultery: she eats, she wipes her mouth, and then says, “I haven't done anything wrong!”

Jeremiah 2:33How cleverly you look for your lovers! Even prostitutes could learn something from you!

Jeremiah 7:31They have built pagan shrines at Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could sacrifice their sons and daughters by burning them in the fire. This is something I never commanded. I never even thought of such a thing!

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:21-29

Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God . 23 How canst thou… Read the whole commentary →

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