Jeremiah 2:22

Even bleach and plenty of soap can't get rid of your guilty stains. I still see them, declares the Lord God.

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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

21I was the one who planted you like the finest vine, grown from the very best seed. How could you degenerate into a useless wild vine?

23How dare you say, “I'm not unclean! I haven't gone to worship the Baals!” Look at what you've been doing down in the valley. Admit what you've done! You're a young female camel, racing around everywhere.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:12David told him, “Stay here today, and tomorrow I'll send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next.

Job 9:31you would toss me into a slime pit so that even my own clothes would hate me!

Psalms 90:8You have set out our sins before you—our secret sins are visible in the light of your presence.

Jeremiah 16:17I see everything they're doing. They can't hide from me, and their sins aren't hidden from me either.

Ezekiel 24:6So this is what the Lord God says: Disaster is coming to the city that has shed so much blood! It is symbolized by the rusted pot, whose rust can't be cleaned off. Take out the meat bit by bit as it comes—don't choose which piece.

Amos 8:7The Lord God, of whom the descendants of Jacob are so proud, has sworn an oath: I will never forget the evil you have done.

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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