22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)In these verses the prophet goes on with his charge against this backsliding people. Observe here, I. The sin itself that he charges them with—idolatry, that great provocation which they were so notoriously guilty of. 1. They frequented the places of idol-worship (Jer. 2:20): “ Upon every high hill and under every green tree , in the high places and the groves, such as the heathen had a foolish fo…
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