Jeremiah 2:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 23How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

  • 13In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

  • 16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.

  • 9Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.

  • Jer 2:19-21
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    19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

    20For 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 did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.

    21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

  • 2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

  • 47Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

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    22In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.

    23It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh),

  • 30Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute after their abominations?

  • 3That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

  • 58You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.

  • 4You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

  • 16But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"

  • 25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

  • 24Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.

  • Jer 3:2-3
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    2Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

    3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

  • 30If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

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    35Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

    36Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

  • 17Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

  • 14Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 43There shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

  • 43Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

  • 15What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • 22If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.

  • 18"Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

  • 5Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

  • 4For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'

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    12In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

    13Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.

  • 14Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

  • 30These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • 30How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

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    31Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

    32Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.

  • 18Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.

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    23The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    24Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.

  • 10Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, Because of uncleanness that destroys, Even with a grievous destruction.

  • 14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

  • 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

  • 1Israel, return to Yahweh your God; For you have fallen because of your sin.

  • 5thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • 40Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and, behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments,

  • 4As 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.

  • 16How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!