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? "
— Jeremiah 4:14, Catholic Public Domain Version
“O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?”
“O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee? ”
“Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?”
““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?”
“Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?”
“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?”
“O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?”
“In that time, it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: ‘A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert, along the way of the daughter of my people, but not to winnow and not to cleanse.’
A full spirit from these places will come to me. And now I will speak my judgments over them.
Behold, he will ascend like a cloud, and his chariot will ascend like a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. ‘Woe to us! For we are being devastated!’
Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?
For there is a voice, of someone announcing from Dan, and he is making known the idol from mount Ephraim.
Say to the nations: ‘Behold, it has been heard in Jerusalem! Guardians are coming from a far away land, to utter their voice against the cities of Judah.’
They have been stationed over her, like the guardians of fields, all around. For she has provoked me to wrath, says the Lord.