If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands;
For you say, What will it benefit you? And, What good shall I have more than if I had sinned?
yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.
I will wash my hands in innocency; so I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,
Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them shall have mercy.
For though you wash yourself with potash, and multiply soap for yourself, yet your iniquity is marked before Me, says the Lord Jehovah.
O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.