Jeremiah 2:22

The Passion Translation

Even if you scrubbed yourself with the strongest soap, your guilty stains would remain before my face. I, Lord Yahweh, have spoken.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:1

Yahweh says: “People of Judah, your sins are engraved indelibly on the stone tablets of your hearts and on the horns of your altars, engraved with an iron pen and a chisel with a diamond point.

Jeremiah 16:17

For I see everything they do. They are not hidden from my presence, nor does their guilt escape my gaze.

Psalm 130:3

Lord, if you measured us and marked us with our sins, who would ever have their prayers answered?

Psalm 90:8

For all of our faults and flaws are in full view to you. Everything we want to hide, you search out and expose by the radiance of your face.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. How long will evil thoughts and harmful schemes find a resting place in you?

Ezekiel 24:6

“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says this: Disaster is in store for the bloody city, for you are like a scum-filled cooking pot that no amount of scrubbing can make clean! Empty the pot, piece by piece, in whatever order it comes.