If I washed myself with snow water, and cleansed my hands with soap,
If my step does turn from the way, or my heart has gone after my eyes, or if any spot has clung to my hands,
For you say, ‘Of what use is it to you? What do I gain more than if I had sinned?’
then You would plunge me into a ditch, and my garments shall abhor me.
I wash my hands in innocence; And I walk around Your altar, O יהוה,
Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my crookednesses.
He who hides his transgressions does not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them finds compassion.
“Although you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your crookedness is ingrained before Me,” declares the Master יהוה.
O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts remain within you?
For not knowing the righteousness of Elohim, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of Elohim.
If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the truth is not in us.