“Although you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your crookedness is ingrained before Me,” declares the Master יהוה.
And Dawiḏ
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my crookedness.
O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O יהוה, who would stand?
You have set our crookednesses before You, Our secret sin in the light of Your face.
“For My eyes are on all their ways; they have not been hidden from My face, nor has their crookedness been hidden from My eyes.
“The sin of Yehuḏ
O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts remain within you?
‘Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “Woe to the city of blood, to the pot in which there is rust, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece, on which no lot has fallen.
“The crookedness of Ephrayim is bound up, his sin is hidden.
יהוה has sworn by the Excellency of Yaʽ
‘Is it not stored up with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?