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)

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.

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

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

³ If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?^(A)

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins^(A) in the light of your presence.^(B)

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)