Jer 2:22-23, 35 | ESV | STEP | Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap , the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God .

Jeremiah 2:22-23

22 Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
^athe stain of your guilt is still before me,

declares the Lord God.
23 ^bHow can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way ^cin the valley;
know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,

Jeremiah 2:35

35 you say, ‘I am innocent;
surely his anger has turned from me.’
^dBehold, I will bring you to judgment
for ^esaying, ‘I have not sinned.’