Jeremiah 2:23
How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Revised Version 1895
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1 Samuel 15:13And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
Psalms 36:2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, that his iniquity shall not be found out and be hated.
Proverbs 28:13He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
Proverbs 30:20So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:33How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
Jeremiah 7:31And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.
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 →