Jeremiah 2:22

Jeremiah 2:22

20 “For of old I have ^abroken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And ^byou said, ‘I will not transgress,’
When ^con every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, ^dplaying the harlot.

21 Yet I had ^aplanted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into ^bthe degenerate plant of an alien vine?

22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is ^amarked before Me,” says the Lord God.

23 “How^a can you say, ‘I am not polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,

24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.

25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ^a‘There is no hope.
No! For I have loved ^baliens, and after them I will go.’

26 “As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,
So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their ^aprophets,

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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nitre—not what is now so called, namely, saltpeter; but the natron of Egypt, a mineral alkali, an incrustation at the bottom of the lakes, after the summer heat has evaporated the water: used for washing (compare Job 9:30; Proverbs 25:20).

soap—potash, the carbonate of which is obtained impure from burning different plants, especially the kali of Egypt and Arabia. Mixed with oil it was used for washing.

marked—deeply ingrained, indelibly marked; the Hebrew, catham, being equivalent to cathab. Others translate, "is treasured up," from the Arabic. MAURER from a Syriac root, "is polluted."

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