Jeremiah 2:22

WEB

²²For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.

KJV

²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

BSB

²²Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

FBV

²²Even bleach and plenty of soap can't get rid of your guilty stains. I still see them, declares the Lord God.

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Extra References

Jeremiah 17:1

¹“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

Hosea 13:12

¹²The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

Job 14:17

¹⁷My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

Job 9:30-31

³⁰If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

Psalms 130:3

³If you, LORD,^[+] kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Psalms 90:8

⁸You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Jeremiah 16:17

¹⁷For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

Amos 8:7

⁷The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Deuteronomy 32:34

³⁴“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?