Jeremiah 2:22 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures 22 ‘Though you should wash with soda* and use much lye,*Your guilt would still be a stain before me,’+ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah. Malachi 3:2 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures 2 “But who will endure the day of his coming, and who will be able to stand when he appears? For he will be like the fire of a refiner and like the lye*+ of laundrymen.
22 ‘Though you should wash with soda* and use much lye,*Your guilt would still be a stain before me,’+ declares the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.
2 “But who will endure the day of his coming, and who will be able to stand when he appears? For he will be like the fire of a refiner and like the lye*+ of laundrymen.