Jeremiah 2:22
Jeremiah chapter 2 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For 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 · 1611For 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 · 1901For 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?