For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, said the Lord GOD. Treasury of Scripture 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 my eyes are on all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my 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 on the table of their heart... Deuteronomy 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? Job 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity. Psalm 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. Psalm 130:3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Hosea 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. Amos 8:7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Context The Results of Israel's Sin
14Is Israel a servant? is he a home born slave? why is he spoiled? 15The young lions roared on him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of your head. 17Have you not procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way? 18And now what have you to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what have you to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? 19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, said the Lord GOD of hosts. 20For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when on every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot. 21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me? 22For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, said the Lord GOD. Parallel Verses 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.
Douay-Rheims Bible Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.
Darby Bible Translation For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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.
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.
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