Jeremiah 2:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals [other gods]? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done. You are a restive young female camel [in the uncontrollable violence of her brute passion eagerly] running hither and thither,

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Common English Bible

²³ How can you say, “I’m not dirty; I haven’t gone after Baals.” Look what you have done in the valley; consider what you have done there. You are like a frenzied young camel, racing around,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ How can you say: 'I have not been polluted. I have not walked after Baal?' Consider your ways in the steep valley. Acknowledge what you have done, so that you may be like a swift runner, following his course.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ How canst thou say: I am not polluted, and I have not walked after Baalim? See thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.

Jeremiah 2:23 Cross References

Esther 8:16

The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.

Psalm 36:2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus says the Lord concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”

Jeremiah 16:10

“And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’

Jeremiah 2:36

How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman protects a man.”

Jeremiah 7:31

And they have built the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

Jeremiah 9:14

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord.”

Luke 10:29

But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.