Jeremiah 2:22 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 2:22

Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

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ASV

For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

KJV

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 22) If you wash yourself with niter, you will multiply for yourself the herb borith, you are stained in your iniquity before me, says the Lord God. As for the herb borith, which we render in Hebrew, the LXX translated it as 'poan' to signify the herb of fullers, which grows in green and moist places according to the custom of the province of Palestine; and it has the same power for washing away stains as niter. But our niter and the herb of the fuller is repentance.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For though thou wash thee with nitre,.... The word נתר, "nitre", is only used in this place and in Pro 25:20 and it is hard to say what it is.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The blot of this people is by no art to be taken out; nor expiated by sacrifices; it is beyond the power of all natural and artificial ways of cleansing. Marked - Thy filthiness is so foul that it leaves a brand behind which cannot be hid or washed out, but will abide, chap. xvii, 1.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For though thou wash thee with nitre - It should be rendered natar or natron, a substance totally different from our nitre. It comes from the root נתר nathar, to dissolve, loosen, because a solution of it in water is abstersive, taking out spots, etc., from clothes. It is still used in the east for the purpose of washing.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	that	H3588 →
אִם־	'im-	though	H518 →
תְּכַבְּסִי֙	te.kha.be.Si	you will wash	H3526 →
בַּנֶּ֔תֶר	ba.Ne.ter	with <the> soda	H5427 →
וְתַרְבִּי־	ve.tar.bi-	so you may increase	H7235 →
לָ֖ךְ	lakh	for <the> yourself
בֹּרִ֑ית	bo.Rit	soap	H1287 →
נִכְתָּ֤ם	nikh.Tam	[is] stained	H3799 →
עֲוֹנֵךְ֙	'a.vo.neKh	iniquity your	H5771 →
לְפָנַ֔י	le.fa.Nai	<to> before me	H6440 →
נְאֻ֖ם	ne.'Um	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
אֲדֹנָ֥י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
יְהוִֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3069 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
leads to
- Psalms 143:2
  Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Psalms 76:7
  You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
- Romans 3:20–24
  Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- John 8:7–9
  When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”
- Job 10:14
  If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Through
Jeremiah 17:1
“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
leads to
- Proverbs 3:3
  Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
  It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
- Proverbs 7:3
  Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

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About Jeremiah

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah