Jeremiah 2:22

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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

That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

“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.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

“The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

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

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

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

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

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

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

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

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.