²² For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁷ My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

¹ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;

¹² The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

³⁴ Isn't this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

³¹ Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.

³ If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

¹⁷ For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

⁷ Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.