²³ How can you protest, ‘I am not defiled;
I have not followed the Baals’?^(A)
Look at your behaviour in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.^(B)
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,
²⁴ 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 weary;
they will find her in her mating season.^[b]

⁸ They are well-fed,^[a] eager^[b] stallions,^(A)
each neighing^(B) after someone else’s wife.^(C)