Jeremiah 2:22 “Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of…”

Jeremiah 2:22

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquitie is marked before me, sayeth the Lord God.

Darby Translation

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

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Cross references

“For though”

Job 9:30 Job 9:31

Job 9:30 · BSB

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 9:31 · BSB

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

“yet thine iniquity”

Jeremiah 17:1 Job 14:17 Hosea 13:12 Jeremiah 16:17 Psalm 90:8 Psalm 130:3

Jeremiah 17:1 · BSB

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

Job 14:17 · BSB

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

Hosea 13:12 · BSB

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.

Jeremiah 16:17 · BSB

For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

Psalm 90:8 · BSB

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psalm 130:3 · BSB

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

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