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Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
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The Sin of 'Vain Thoughts'
Commentators explain that the phrase "evil thoughts" uses the Hebrew word 'aven', which is specifically associated with idolatry. The core sin wasn't just random bad behavior but a heart that had turned from the true God to worship false idols. The call is to cleanse the very source of this spiritual adultery.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your vain thoughts – “Your” iniquitous “thoughts.” “Aven,” the word used here, is especially applied to the sin of idolatry: thus Bethel is …
19th Century
Anglican
O Jerusalem. —The prophet’s answer to the cry that comes from the city. In that “washing of the heart,” which had seemed impossibl…
Baptist
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved.
There is ever that silver bell of mercy ringing out the note o…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here now the Prophet expressly and openly exhorts the people to repent. By commanding Jerusalem to wash her heart from wickedness, that sh…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness These are the words of the prophet, or of God by the prophet, showing t…
The fierce conqueror of the neighboring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by fal…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he describes their coming in relation to the end of their march; he makes three points concerning this.
