If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Even if you wash with lye and use a great amount of bleach, , the stain of your iniquity is still in front of me. This is the Lord God’s declaration.
If we say, ‘We have no sin,’ we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?
The one who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,
then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!
For you ask, ‘What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin? ’
