²² But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁷ Sealed up in a bag `is' my transgression, And Thou sewest up mine iniquity.

¹ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,

¹² Bound up `is' the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden `is' his sin,

³⁴ Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

³⁰ If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

³¹ Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

¹⁷ For Mine eyes `are' upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

⁷ Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.