Jeremiah 2:22
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
KJV
Si laveris te nitro, et multiplicaveris tibi herbam borith, maculata es in iniquitate tua coram me, dicit Dominus Deus.
Vulgate
ἐὰν ἀποπλύνῃς ἐν νίτρῳ καὶ πληθύνῃς σεαυτῇ ποίαν, κεκηλίδωσαι ἐν ταῖς ἀδικίαις σου ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ, λέγει Κύριος.
LXX
For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
ASV
כִּ֤י אִם תְּכַבְּסִי֙ בַּ/נֶּ֔תֶר וְ/תַרְבִּי לָ֖/ךְ בֹּרִ֑ית נִכְתָּ֤ם עֲוֺנֵ/ךְ֙ לְ/פָנַ֔/י נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥/י יְהוִֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210214.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Cross-references
- 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Amos 8:7 — The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- Deut 32:34 — Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
- Deut 32:34 — Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
- Hos 13:12 — The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
- Jer 13:23 — Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
- Jer 16:17 — For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
- Jer 17:1 — The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
- Job 9:30 — If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- Job 9:30 — If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- Job 14:17 — My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
- Mal 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
- Prov 16:2 — All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
- Prov 28:13 — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
- Ps 90:8 — Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Ps 130:3 — If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?