If I wash myself with snow, and make my palms clean with lye soap,
If my step has turned aside out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my palm,
For you say, What will it benefit you? What shall I profit more than if I had sinned?
yet You will plunge me into the ditch, and my own clothes would abhor me.
I will wash my palms in innocence; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,
Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
One covering his transgressions will not prosper, but the one confessing and forsaking them shall have pity.
Though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, your iniquity is marked before Me, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil that you may be saved. Until when will your thoughts of iniquity lodge within you?
For not knowing the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.