Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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. New 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! English 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. Berean Standard Bible Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. King James Bible For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. New King James Version For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me,” says the Lord GOD. New American Standard Bible “Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your guilt is before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. NASB 1995 “Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your iniquity is before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. NASB 1977 “Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your iniquity is before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. Legacy Standard Bible Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your iniquity is before Me,” declares Lord Yahweh. Amplified Bible “For though you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your guilt is [still] before Me [and you are soiled and dirty],” says the Lord GOD. Christian 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. Holman Christian Standard Bible Even if you wash with lye and use a great amount of soap, the stain of your sin is still in front of Me. This is the Lord GOD’s declaration. American Standard Version For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah. Contemporary English Version The LORD said: People of Israel, you are stained with guilt, and no soap or bleach can wash it away. English Revised Version For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. GOD'S WORD® Translation Even if you wash with detergent and use a lot of soap, I would still see the stains from your wickedness," declares the Almighty LORD. Good News Translation Even if you washed with the strongest soap, I would still see the stain of your guilt. International 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. Majority Standard Bible Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. NET Bible You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see," says the Lord GOD. New Heart English Bible For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord GOD. Webster's Bible Translation For though thou shalt wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. World English Bible For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionBut though you wash with natron, "" And multiply soap to yourself, "" Your iniquity is marked before Me,” "" A declaration of Lord YHWH. Young's Literal Translation But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. Smith's Literal Translation For if thou shalt wash thyself with nitre, and thou shalt increase to thee cleansing, thine iniquity was graven before me, says the Lord Jehovah. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThough thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God. Catholic Public Domain Version Even if you wash yourself with soap, and increase your use of herbal soaps, you are still stained by your iniquity in my sight, says the Lord God. New American Bible Even if you scour it with lye, and use much soap, The stain of your guilt is still before me, oracle of the Lord GOD. New Revised Standard Version Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord GOD. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor though you wash yourself with nitre and use much sulphur, yet your sins within you are marked before me, says the LORD God. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And if you will be whitened in niter and you multiply sulphur for yourself, your sins have defiled them among you before me, says LORD JEHOVAH God OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For though thou wash thee with nitre, And take thee much soap, Yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, Saith the Lord GOD. Brenton Septuagint Translation Though thou shouldest wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself soap, still thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, saith the Lord. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Consequences of Israel's Sin…21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? 22Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. Cross References Isaiah 1:16 Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! Psalm 51:2 Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Job 9:30-31 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, / then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me. Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth. Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. Malachi 3:2-3 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. / And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness. 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. Revelation 7:14 “Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Hebrews 9:13-14 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, / how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God! Titus 3:5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. Matthew 23:25-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. / Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. / Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. ... Mark 7:14-23 Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand: / Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.” / If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. ... 1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, Treasury of Scripture For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, said the Lord GOD. for though Job 9:30,31 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; … yet thine iniquity Jeremiah 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. Jeremiah 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; Deuteronomy 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? Jump to Previous Abundance Affirmation Although Declares Evil-Doing Guilt Iniquity Lye Marked Multiply Nitre Soap Soda Sovereign Stain Thyself Use Wash WashedJump to Next Abundance Affirmation Although Declares Evil-Doing Guilt Iniquity Lye Marked Multiply Nitre Soap Soda Sovereign Stain Thyself Use Wash WashedJeremiah 2 1. God having shown his former kindness, 5. expostulates with the people on their causeless and unexampled revolt 14. They are the causes of their own calamities 18. The sins and idolatries of Judah 35. Her confidence is rejected. Although you wash with lye The Hebrew word for "lye" is "נֶתֶר" (neter), which refers to a natural mineral alkali used in ancient times for cleaning and washing. This phrase suggests a futile attempt at self-cleansing. In the historical context, lye was a strong cleaning agent, symbolizing human efforts to purify oneself from sin. The imagery here is powerful, illustrating that no matter how strong the human effort, it cannot remove the stain of sin without divine intervention. This reflects the conservative Christian belief in the necessity of God's grace for true purification. and use an abundance of soap the stain of your guilt is still before Me declares the Lord GOD Sope.--Not the compounds of alkali and oil or fat now known by the name, but the potash or alkali, obtained from the ashes of plants, which was used by itself as a powerful detergent. The thought is the same as that of Job 9:30, and, we may add, as that of Macbeth, Acts 2, sc. 2 :-- "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." The guilt was too strongly "marked," too "deep-dyed in grain" to be removed by any outward palliatives. Verse 22. - Nitre does not mean the substance which now bears that name, but "natron," a mineral alkali, deposited on the shores and on the bed of certain lakes in Egypt, especially those in the Wady Nat-run (the ancient Nitria, whence came so large a store of precious Syriac manuscripts). In ancient times, this natron was collected to make lye from for washing purposes (comp. Proverbs 25:20). Sope; rather, potash; the corresponding vegetable alkali (comp. Isaiah 1:25). Thine iniquity is marked. So Kimchi and Gesenius (through a doubtful etymology); but the Aramaic use of the word favors the rendering stained, i.e. filthy. The word is in the participle, to indicate the permanence of the state (comp. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood," etc.? 'Macbeth').Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Althoughכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction you wash תְּכַבְּסִי֙ (tə·ḵab·bə·sî) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person feminine singular Strong's 3526: To trample, to wash with lye בַּנֶּ֔תֶר (ban·ne·ṯer) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5427: Natron or carbonate of soda and use an abundance וְתַרְבִּי־ (wə·ṯar·bî-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - second person feminine singular Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great of soap, בֹּרִ֑ית (bō·rîṯ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1287: Lye, alkali, potash, soap the stain נִכְתָּ֤ם (niḵ·tām) Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 3799: To carve, engrave, to inscribe indelibly of your guilt עֲוֺנֵךְ֙ (‘ă·wō·nêḵ) Noun - common singular construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity is still before Me,” לְפָנַ֔י (lə·p̄ā·nay) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 6440: The face declares נְאֻ֖ם (nə·’um) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 5002: An oracle the Lord אֲדֹנָ֥י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 136: The Lord GOD. יְהוִֽה׃ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3069: YHWH Links Jeremiah 2:22 NIVJeremiah 2:22 NLT Jeremiah 2:22 ESV Jeremiah 2:22 NASB Jeremiah 2:22 KJV Jeremiah 2:22 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 2:22 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 2:22 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 2:22 French Bible Jeremiah 2:22 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 2:22 For though you wash yourself with lye (Jer.) |
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