Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord God.
Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day,
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my presence, nor is their iniquity concealed from my sight.
The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars,
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, the pot whose crud is in it, whose crud has not gone out of it! Empty it piece by piece, making no choice at all.
Ephraim’s iniquity is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries,