Jeremiah 2:22
For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says lord LORD.
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2 Samuel 11:12And David said to Uriah, Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
Job 9:31yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Psalms 90:8Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Ezekiel 24:6Therefore thus says lord LORD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot has fallen upon it.
Amos 8:7LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:21-29
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God . 23 How canst thou… Read the whole commentary →