“For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 2 contains 37 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.