אֵ֣יךְ תֹּאמְרִ֞י לֹ֣א נִטְמֵ֗אתִי אַחֲרֵ֤י הַבְּעָלִים֙ לֹ֣א הָלַ֔כְתִּי רְאִ֤י דַרְכֵּךְ֙ בַּגַּ֔יְא דְּעִ֖י מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑ית בִּכְרָ֥ה קַלָּ֖ה מְשָׂרֶ֥כֶת דְּרָכֶֽיהָ׃
Bagaimana mungkin engkau berkata: “Aku tidak menajiskan diri, aku tidak mengikuti para Baal”? Lihatlah jalanmu di lembah itu, ketahuilah apa yang telah kauperbuat: engkau seperti unta betina muda yang lincah, yang tetap terpaut pada jalan-jalannya.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“How can you say, I am not defiled” [2:23]. The Holy One said to Israel: how can you say that you are not impure with transgressions and have not worshiped foreign gods? Come and hear what you have done near the house of Peor. You have worshiped foreign gods and pursued illicit sex there. You still do the same things today. You are like a young horse or a young camel that one wants to teach it to work. They go back and forth. So too are you also Israel.3Rashi, Jeremiah, 2:23.
Rashi
See your way in the valley See what you have done opposite Beth-Peor, and until now you adhere to that way like a swift she camel clinging to her ways.
Rashi
young she-camel Heb. בכרה, a young female camel, that loves to wander. “The young camels (בכרי) of Midian” (Isa. 60:6) is translated “and they are young camels,” as we find in Sanhedrin 52a: There are many old camels laden with the skins of young camels (הוגני).
Rashi
clinging Adhering to the ways of her youth, an expression similar to: “it would have clung (מסריך סריך)” (Chullin 51a). This may be associated with “a shoe thong (שרוך נעל)” (Gen. 14:23). She binds the ways of her youth in her heart.