Jeremiah 4:14
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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Study Note
The urgent prophetic call — 'O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?' — frames Judah's crisis as fundamentally moral and interior rather than military or political. The command to 'wash your heart' (kibsi libech) anticipates Ezekiel's promise of a new heart (Ezekiel 36:26) and is the Old Testament's closest approach to the New Testament language of spiritual cleansing and renewal. The question 'how long?' introduces temporal urgency — the window for repentance is limited, not indefinitely extended, as Jeremiah's entire ministry demonstrates. The verse belongs to a series of lament-oracle exchanges in Jeremiah 4 where the prophet himself becomes so identified with the coming judgment that his words of warning and lament become indistinguishable.
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O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
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If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and …
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in …
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new …
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for …
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: