‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
Jeremiah 4:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved! How long shall your iniquitous and grossly offensive thoughts lodge within you? American Standard Version (1901) O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee? Common English Bible Cleanse your heart of evil, Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will you entertain your destructive ideas? Catholic Public Domain Version Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved. How long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee? |
‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields – I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean – for how long yet?
The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron stylus. With a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars,
So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem, “This is what the Lord says: Look, I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.”
Even if you wash with lye and use a great amount of bleach, , the stain of your iniquity is still in front of me. This is the Lord God’s declaration.
Listen, earth! I am about to bring disaster on these people, the fruit of their own plotting, for they have paid no attention to my words. They have rejected my instruction.
Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?
Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbour, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.
‘Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
But the Lord said to him, ‘Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.
Simon Peter said to him, ‘Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.’
Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart’s intent may be forgiven.
For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are futile. ,
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.