I might wash myself with soap and scrub my hands with strong soap,
If I have turned away from doing what is right, or my heart has been led by my eyes to do wrong, or my hands have been made unclean,
but you also ask, ‘What’s the use? I don’t gain anything by not sinning.’
but you would push me into a dirty pit, and even my clothes would hate me.
I wash my hands to show I am innocent, and I come to your altar, Lord.
Turn your face from my sins and wipe out all my guilt.
If you hide your sins, you will not succeed. If you confess and reject them, you will receive mercy.
Although you wash yourself with cleanser and use much soap, I can still see the stain of your guilt,” says the Lord God.
People of Jerusalem, clean the evil from your hearts so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.
Because they did not know the way that God makes people right with him, they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.
If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us.