Parallel Verses
King James 2000
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
New American Standard Bible
That you may be saved.
How long will your
Lodge within you?
King James Version
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Holman Bible
so that you will be delivered.
How long will you harbor
malicious thoughts within you?
International Standard Version
Jerusalem, wash your evil from your heart so that you may be delivered. How long will you harbor evil schemes within you?
American Standard Version
O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
Amplified
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness,
That you may be saved.
How long will your wicked and immoral thoughts
Lodge within you?
Bible in Basic English
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?
Darby Translation
Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Julia Smith Translation
O Jerusalem, wash from evil to thy heart so that thou shalt be saved. How long shall purposes of thy vanity lodge in the midst of thee?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Modern King James verseion
O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be helped. How long shall thy noisesome thoughts remain with thee?
NET Bible
"Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
New Heart English Bible
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
The Emphasized Bible
Wash from wickedness thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, - How long, shall lodge within thee thy wicked devices?
Webster
O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
World English Bible
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Youngs Literal Translation
Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
Themes
Cleansing » Ps 51 » Spiritual encouraged
Evil » Confess Christ » Thoughts
Heart » The unregenerate » Is full of iniquity
character of the unrenewed Heart » Full of vain thoughts
Jeremiah » The prophet » Lamentations of » Over jerusalem
Purification of heart » Cleansing, spiritual » Encouraged
Topics
Interlinear
Leb
Ra`
Yasha`
'aven
Machashabah
References
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 4:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined. 14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? 15 For a voice declares from Dan, and proclaims affliction from mount Ephraim.
Names
Cross References
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.
Proverbs 1:22
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your harlotry, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it be?
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Psalm 119:113
[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
Isaiah 1:16-19
Wash you, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
Matthew 15:19-20
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Matthew 23:26-27
You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Romans 1:21
Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.