²² Although you wash^(A) yourself with soap^(B)
    and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.^(C)

²³ “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;^(A)
    I have not run after the Baals’?^(B)
See how you behaved in the valley;^(C)
    consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
    running^(D) here and there,

³⁵     you say, ‘I am innocent;^(A)
    he is not angry with me.’
But I will pass judgment^(B) on you
    because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’^(C)