Jeremías 2:22
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
Context
This verse from Jeremías Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Dios presenta un caso legal contra Israel: han intercambiado su gloria por ídolos inútiles. El pueblo ha abandonado la fuente de aguas vivas y ha cavado cisternas rotas, y ahora enfrentará la humillación.
Otras traducciones
For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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.
For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
Referencias cruzadas
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid …
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is …
The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?