²² For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is ^(A)marked^[a] before Me,” says the Lord God.

17 “The sin of Judah is ^(A)written with a ^(B)pen of iron;
With the point of a diamond it is ^(C)engraved
On the tablet of their heart,
And on the horns of your altars,

^17 (A)My transgression is sealed up in a bag,
And You ^[a]cover my iniquity.

^8 (A)You have set our iniquities before You,
Our ^(B)secret sins in the light of Your countenance.

^30 (A)If I wash myself with snow water,
And cleanse my hands with ^[a]soap,
³¹ Yet You will plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes will ^[b]abhor me.