Jeremiah 2:25
Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
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23 How canst you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you hast done: a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
27 Saying to a stock, you my father; and to a stone, you hast brought me forth: for they have turned back unto me, and not face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.