my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
“But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.
You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
yet you will plunge me into filth, and my own clothes will abhor me.
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord God.
I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the silver on scales.
Ephraim’s iniquity is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;
Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries,