What does Jeremiah 2:22 mean?
ESV: Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord GOD.
NIV: 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.
NASB: Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your guilt is before Me,' declares the Lord God.
CSB: 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.
NLT: No amount of soap or lye can make you clean. I still see the stain of your guilt. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!
KJV: For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
NKJV: For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me,” says the Lord God.
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