Lexicon :: Strong's H5771 - ʿāôn

Even if you wash with lye

and use a great amount of bleach,[fn]

the stain of your iniquity is still in front of me.

This is the Lord GOD’s declaration.

“Only acknowledge your guilt —

you have rebelled against the LORD your God.

You have scattered your favors to strangers

under every green tree

and have not obeyed me.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.

Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,

“They have returned to the iniquities of their ancestors who refused to obey my words and have followed other gods to worship them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant I made with their ancestors.

And when you ask yourself,

“Why have these things happened to me? ”

it is because of your great guilt

that your skirts have been stripped off,

your body exposed.[fn]

Though our iniquities testify against us,

LORD, act for your name’s sake.

Indeed, our rebellions are many;

we have sinned against you.

This is what the LORD says concerning these people:

Truly they love to wander;

they never rest their feet.

So the LORD does not accept them.

Now he will remember their iniquity

and punish their sins.

We acknowledge our wickedness, LORD,

the iniquity of our ancestors;

indeed, we have sinned against you.

“When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, ‘Why has the LORD declared all this terrible disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? ’

“for my gaze takes in all their ways. They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight.

But you, LORD, know

all their deadly plots against me.

Do not wipe out their iniquity;

do not blot out their sin before you.

Let them be forced to stumble before you;

deal with them in the time of your anger.

“When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’ ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever.

All your lovers have forgotten you;

they no longer look for you,

for I have struck you as an enemy would,

with the discipline of someone cruel,

because of your enormous guilt

and your innumerable sins.

“Rather, each will die for his own iniquity. Anyone who eats sour grapes ​— ​his own teeth will be set on edge.

“No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin.

“You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Armies,

“I will purify them from all the iniquity they have committed against me, and I will forgive all the iniquities they have committed against me, rebelling against me.

“Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

I will punish him, his descendants, and his officers for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disaster, which I warned them about but they did not listen.’ ”

In those days and at that time —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

one will search for Israel’s iniquity,

but there will be none,

and for Judah’s sins,

but they will not be found,

for I will forgive those I leave as a remnant.

Leave Babylon;

save your lives, each of you!

Don’t perish because of her guilt.

For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance —

he will pay her what she deserves.