Jer 2:22-23, 37 | 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 2:37

37 From it too you will come away
with ^dyour hands on your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you will not prosper by them.