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"^(C1)How can you say, 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the ^(C2)Baals'? Look at your way in the ^(C3)valley! Know what you have done! You are a swift young camel ^(C4)running about senselessly on her ways,

A ^(C1)wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion. Who can turn her away in her mating season? None who seek her will grow weary; In her month they will find her.

-"Keep your feet from being bare, And your throat from thirst; But you said, '^(C1)It is ^(F1)hopeless! No! For I have ^(C2)loved strangers, And I will walk after them.'

"Like the shame of a ^(C1)thief when he is discovered, So the house of Israel is shamed; They, their kings, their leaders, Their priests, and their prophets,

Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' And to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their ^(C1)backs to Me, And not their faces; But in the ^(C2)time of their ^(F1)trouble they will say, 'Arise and save us!'

-"But where are your ^(C1)gods Which you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can ^(C2)save you In the time of your ^(F1)trouble! For ^(C3)as many as the number of your cities Are your gods, Judah.

"Why do you contend with Me? You have ^(C1)all revolted against Me," declares the LORD.

"^(C1)In vain I have struck your sons; They did not accept discipline. Your ^(C2)sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.