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Jeremiah 2:22

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22Even if you wash with lye

and use a great amount of soap, z

the stain of your sin is still in front of Me. a

This is the Lord God’s declaration.

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Cross references

  1. z2:22 Ps 51:2, 7; Mal 3:2; Eph 5:26
  2. a2:22 Ps 90:8

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Though you wash yourself with lye

and use much soap,

the stain of your guilt is still before me,

declares the Lord God.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Although you wash yourself with soap

and use an abundance of cleansing powder,

the stain of your guilt is still before me,”

declares the Sovereign Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Even if you wash with lye

and use a great amount of bleach,

the stain of your iniquity is still in front of me.

This is the Lord God’s declaration.

NLTNew Living Translation

No amount of soap or lye can make you clean.

I still see the stain of your guilt.

I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For if you wash with natron,

and you use much soap,

your guilt is sticking as a stain before me,”

declares the Lord Yahweh.

KJV 1900King James Version

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.