Jeremiah 2:22

Even if you wash yourself with soap, and increase your use of herbal soaps, you are still stained by your iniquity in my sight, says the Lord God.

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In The King James Version

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

21Yet I planted you as an elect vineyard, with only true seed. Then how have you been turned away from me, toward that which is depraved, O strange vineyard?

23How can you say: ‘I have not been polluted. I have not walked after Baal?’ Consider your ways in the steep valley. Acknowledge what you have done, so that you may be like a swift runner, following his course.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:12Therefore, David said to Uriah, “Even so, remain here today, and tomorrow I will send you away.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem, on that day and the next.

Job 9:31yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.

Psalms 90:8So then, truly, you will consider with your eyes, and you will see the retribution of sinners.

Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed from my eyes.

Ezekiel 24:6Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, to the cooking pot that has rust in it, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Cast it out piece by piece! No lot has fallen upon it.

Amos 8:7The Lord has sworn by the arrogance of Jacob: I will not forget, even to the end, all 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 →

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