Jeremiah 2:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.”
Read Jeremiah 2:22 in the flow of Jeremiah2 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Jeremiah2 to see the surrounding context.
“Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 2:22 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
- 2 Samuel 11:12“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
- Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- Job 9:31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- Job 14:17My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
- Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
- Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Jeremiah 16:17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
- Jeremiah 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
- Ezekiel 24:6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.
- Hosea 13:12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
- Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
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