Jeremiah 2:22
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord Yahweh.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 14:17 : 17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
- Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;
- Hos 13:12 : 12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.
- Amos 8:7 : 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- Deut 32:34 : 34 "Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
- Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
- Ps 90:8 : 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
- Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
- Jer 16:17 : 17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
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20 "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
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2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
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2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
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35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:
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1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
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4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
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16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!