Though thou wash thee with fuller’s clay, and multipliest to thee the [cleansing] herb boreth, thou art defouled in thy wickedness before me, saith the Lord God.
The sin of Judah is written with an iron pointel, in a nail of adamant; it is written on the breadth of the heart of them, and in the horns of the altars of them.
Therefore the Lord God saith these things, Woe to the city of bloods, to the pot whose rust is therein, and the rust thereof went not out of it; cast thou out it by parts, and by his parts; and the lot fell not on it.