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22 No amount of soap or lye can make you clean.
    I still see the stain of your guilt.
    I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!

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22 Although you wash(A) yourself with soap(B)
    and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.(C)

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Judah’s Sin and Punishment

17 “The sin of Judah
    is inscribed with an iron chisel—
engraved with a diamond point on their stony hearts
    and on the corners of their altars.

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17 “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool,(A)
    inscribed with a flint point,
on the tablets of their hearts(B)
    and on the horns(C) of their altars.

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17 My sins would be sealed in a pouch,
    and you would cover my guilt.

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17 My offenses will be sealed(A) up in a bag;(B)
    you will cover over my sin.(C)

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12 “Ephraim’s guilt has been collected,
    and his sin has been stored up for punishment.

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12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.(A)

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Now the Lord has sworn this oath
    by his own name, the Pride of Israel[a]:
“I will never forget
    the wicked things you have done!

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Footnotes

  1. 8:7 Hebrew the pride of Jacob. See note on 3:13.

The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:(A) “I will never forget(B) anything they have done.(C)

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17 I am watching them closely, and I see every sin. They cannot hope to hide from me.

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17 My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden(A) from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.(B)

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Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,
    who, O Lord, could ever survive?

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If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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You spread out our sins before you—
    our secret sins—and you see them all.

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You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins(A) in the light of your presence.(B)

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30 Even if I were to wash myself with soap
    and clean my hands with lye,
31 you would plunge me into a muddy ditch,
    and my own filthy clothing would hate me.

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30 Even if I washed myself with soap(A)
    and my hands(B) with cleansing powder,(C)
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit(D)
    so that even my clothes would detest me.(E)

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34 “The Lord says, ‘Am I not storing up these things,
    sealing them away in my treasury?

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34 “Have I not kept this in reserve
    and sealed it in my vaults?(A)

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