Jeremiah 2:22 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²² 0 In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² For though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, yet your iniquity and guilt are still [upon you; you are] spotted, dirty, and stained before Me, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²² Even though you scrub yourself with soap or strong powder, the stain of your sin is still before me, declares the LORD God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Even if you wash yourself with soap, and increase your use of herbal soaps, you are still stained by your iniquity in my sight, says the Lord God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Though thou wash thyself with nitre and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.

Jeremiah 2:22 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:12

7 And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and there fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the Hethite was killed also.

Job 14:17

2 But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.

Psalm 130:3

If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.

Psalm 90:8

5 We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Jeremiah 16:17

And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.

Jeremiah 17:1

The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Jeremiah 4:14

2 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Ezekiel 24:6

4 I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I will judge thee according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith the Lord.

Hosea 13:12

I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

Amos 8:7

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.

Deuteronomy 32:34

9 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.