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Jeremiah 2:22
Jeremiah 2:22 is verse 22 of Jeremiah chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
King James Version
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
World English Bible
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 2:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
22 Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
24 a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
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.
Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
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?
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.