Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
“‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
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