Jeremiah 2:22

Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!

23How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening:

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:12And David said to Urias, Remain here today also, and to-morrow I will let you go. So Urias remained in Jerusalem that day and the day following.

Job 9:31you had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

Psalms 90:8Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. 1

Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from my eyes.

Ezekiel 24:6Therefore thus says the Lord; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.

Amos 8:7The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

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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