Jeremiah 2:23

How 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:

LXX2012 (US English)

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 you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before me, says 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 are you + 15:13 Gr. to the Lord. of the Lord: I have + 15:13 Gr. established. performed all that the Lord said.

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

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

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

Jeremiah 2:33What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways;

Jeremiah 7:31And they have built the altar of Taphes, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, 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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