Jeremiah 2:22

For even if you clean yourself in the river or wash with strong soap, 1 your iniquity is a stain before me—this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. 1

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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 planted you as a choice vine, completely from pure seed. 1 How then have you have changed yourself into a corrupt, worthless vine? 1

23How can you say, 'I am not defiled! I have not walked after the Baals'? 1 Look at what you did in the valleys! Consider what you have done—you are a swift female camel running here and there, 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:12So David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you leave.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day.

Job 9:31God would plunge me in a ditch, 1 and my own clothes would be disgusted with me. 1

Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, 1 our hidden sins in the light of your presence. 1

Jeremiah 16:17For my eye is on all their ways; they cannot be hidden from before me. Their iniquity cannot be concealed from before my eyes.

Ezekiel 24:6Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Woe to the city of blood, a cooking pot that has rust in it and that rust will not come out of it. Take piece after piece from it, but do not cast lots for it.

Amos 8:7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their actions.” 1

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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