Jeremiah 4:14 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

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ASV

O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

KJV

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 14.) Wash your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved: how long shall evil thoughts dwell in you? To the people who say, 'Woe to us, for we have been devastated,' the Prophet responds, rather through the Prophet God responds: Wash your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, with that water about which Isaiah also speaks: 'Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean' (Isaiah 1:16), the water of saving baptism, the water of repentance.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1573: “Bad Lodgers and How To Treat Them” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1880)

ONE notices, in reading such a chapter as this fourth of Jeremiah, that the change which God required in the Jewish people was a very deep and thorough one. It was not only the washing of their hands, nor the cleansing of their outward lives, but the washing of their hearts from wickedness—and the Lord did not only require of them that they should cease from wicked actions, but even from vain thoughts.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Only one means of deliverance is left to the Jews--a thorough repentance. vain thoughts--namely, projects for deliverance, such as enlisting the Egyptians on their side. GESENIUS translates, "How long wilt thou harbor vain thoughts?"

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כַּבְּסִ֨י	ka.be.Si	wash	H3526 →
מֵרָעָ֤ה	me.ra.'Ah	from evil	H7451 →
לִבֵּךְ֙	li.beKh	heart your	H3820 →
יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם	ye.Ru.sha.Lim	O Jerusalem	H3389 →
לְמַ֖עַן	le.Ma.'an	so that	H4616 →
תִּוָּשֵׁ֑עִי	ti.va.She.'i	you may be saved	H3467 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
מָתַ֛י	ma.Tai	when?	H4970 →
תָּלִ֥ין	ta.Lin	will it remain	H3885 →
בְּקִרְבֵּ֖ךְ	be.kir.Bekh	in inner being your	H7130 →
מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת	mach.she.Vot	[the] thoughts of	H4284 →
אוֹנֵֽךְ׃	'o.Nekh	wickedness your	H205 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
leads to
- Psalms 145:18
  The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Hebrews 10:22
  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Malachi 3:7
  Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But…
- Zechariah 1:3
  So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
- Isaiah 55:6–7
  Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Through
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely…
leads to
- Proverbs 28:13
  He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- James 4:8–10
  Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- Ezekiel 18:21–23
  But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

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Where the connections lead

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06About Jeremiah

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Where the connections lead

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About Jeremiah