²² For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

¹⁷ My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

¹ The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:

¹² The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.

³⁴ Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?

³⁰ If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

³¹ Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

⁸ You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

³ O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

¹⁷ For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.

⁷ The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.