20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds, and thou saidest, [a]I will no more transgress, but like an harlot thou runnest about upon all high hills, and under all green trees.

21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, whose [b]plants were all natural: how then art thou turned unto me into the plants of a strange vine?

22 Though thou wash thee with [c]nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:20 When I delivered thee out of Egypt, Exod. 19:8; Deut. 5:27; Josh. 24:16; Ezra 10:12; Heb. 8:6.
  2. Jeremiah 2:21 Hebrew, seed was all true.
  3. Jeremiah 2:22 Though thou use all the purifications and ceremonies of the law, thou canst not escape punishment, except thou turn to me by faith and repentance.

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