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How can you protest, “I am not defiled;
I have not followed the Baals”?(A)
Look at your behavior in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.(B)
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,
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a wild donkey(C) at home(a) 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 tired;
they will find her in her mating season.(b)

Footnotes:

a. Jeremiah 2:24: Lit donkey taught
b. Jeremiah 2:24: Lit her month

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