Jeremiah 2:22
For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD.
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Context
20 For of old time I have broken your yoke, burst your bands; and you saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wanderest, playing the harlot.
21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
22 For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD.
23 How canst you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you hast done: a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.