Jeremiah 2:22

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Lord GOD.

My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.

The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron stylus. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of their altars.

"Ephraim's guilt is on record; his sin is stored away.

"Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury?

"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

You have set our iniquities before you, what we have concealed in the light of your presence.

LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?

For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight. Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.

"The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: I will never forget anything they have done.

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

"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight. Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.

The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron stylus. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of their altars.

"Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury?

My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins.

You have set our iniquities before you, what we have concealed in the light of your presence.

LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?

"Ephraim's guilt is on record; his sin is stored away.

"The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: I will never forget anything they have done.

"Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury?

Then David invited Uriah, "Stay here today, and tomorrow I'll send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem all that day and the next.

"If I wash myself with water from snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,