Jeremiah 2:23

How wilt thou say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold thy ways in the burial ground, and know what thou hast done: her voice has howled in the evening:

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

In Context

22Though thou shouldest wash thyself with niter, and multiply to thyself soap, still thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, saith the Lord.

24she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:13And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed art thou of the Lord: I have performed all that the Lord said.

Psalms 36:2For they shall soon be withered as the grass, 1 And shall soon fall away as the green herbs. 1

Proverbs 28:13He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper: 1 But he that blames himself shall be loved. 1

Proverbs 30:20Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing * amiss.

Jeremiah 2:33What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou hast done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;

Jeremiah 7:31And they have built the altar of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them to do, neither did I design it in my heart.

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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