Even though you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your iniquity is before Me.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai.
Judah’s sin is written with an iron pen and with a point of a diamond, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.
my transgression will be sealed in a bundle and cover over my iniquity.
Ephraim is bound by iniquity; his sin is treasured up.
For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.
If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?
Adonai swore by the Pride of Jacob: “Never will I forget all their deeds!
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?
O Jerusalem, purify your heart from wickedness, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you off.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day. The next day,
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Oy to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, whose rust will not come off it! Draw it out piece by piece —no lot would fall for it.