For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,
says the Lord GOD.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Borith. An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt, (Challoner) like kali, soda, (Calmet) or soap. (Langius.)
Protestants, "and take thee much soap. "(Haydock)