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:

John Wesley's Notes

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Nitre - Though interpreters do greatly vary in describing what is particularly meant here by Nitre and Soap, and would be superfluous to mention here; yet all agree, they are some materials that artists make use of for cleansing away spots from the skin. The blot of this people is by no art to be taken out; nor expiated by sacrifices; it is beyond the power of all natural and artificial ways of cleansing. Marked - Thy filthiness is so foul that it leaves a brand behind which cannot be hid or washed out, but will abide, Jeremiah 17:1.

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