Jeremiah 2:22 - The Scriptures 2009

²² “Although you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your crookedness is ingrained before Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

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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.

Jeremiah 2:22 Cross References

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Yehuḏah is written with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your slaughter-places,

Job 14:17

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my crookedness.

Hosea 13:12

“The crookedness of Ephrayim is bound up, his sin is hidden.

Jeremiah 16:17

“For My eyes are on all their ways; they have not been hidden from My face, nor has their crookedness been hidden from My eyes.

Psalm 130:3

O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O יהוה, who would stand?

Amos 8:7

יהוה has sworn by the Excellency of Ya‛aqoḇ, “I shall never forget any of their works.

Psalm 90:8

You have set our crookednesses before You, Our secret sin in the light of Your face.

Deuteronomy 32:34

Is it not stored up with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts remain within you?

2 Samuel 11:12

And Dawiḏ said to Uriyah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I let you go.” So Uriyah remained in Yerushalayim, that day and the next.

Ezekiel 24:6

Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “Woe to the city of blood, to the pot in which there is rust, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece, on which no lot has fallen.