22Although you wash yourself with soda and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Sovereign Lord .


In Context

19 Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me," declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

20 "Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, 'I will not serve you!' Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

21 I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?

22 Although you wash yourself with soda and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Sovereign Lord .

23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals'? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,

24 a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving- in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.

Jeremiah 2:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:22Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22For though thou shalt wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,| says the Lord Yahweh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:22But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:22For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, said the Lord GOD.