Jeremiah 2:22

Jeremiah chapter 2 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

v.22This passage

v.23How 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;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 16:17

    For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.

  • Job 14:17

    My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.

  • Amos 8:7

    Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

  • Job 9:30

    If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

  • Jeremiah 17:1

    The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, andwith the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

  • Deuteronomy 32:34

    Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?