Jeremiah 4:14

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Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

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  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such thoughts in your heart.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 13:27 : 27 Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Matt 12:33 : 33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
  • Matt 15:19-20 : 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders. 20 These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
  • Matt 23:26-27 : 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity.
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 Then the Lord said to him, 'Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
  • Isa 1:16-19 : 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good; seek justice, correct the oppressor. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow. 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
  • Ps 119:113 : 113 I hate those with divided hearts, but I love Your law.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
  • 1 Cor 3:20 : 20 And again, 'The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.'

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  • Jer 6:6-8
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    6For this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Cut down trees and build a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.

    7As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard within her; continually before me, there are sickness and wounds.

    8Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will become alienated from you and make you a desolation, a land uninhabited.

  • Jer 13:27
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    27Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?

  • Isa 4:4
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    4The Lord will wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleanse the bloodstains of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning.

  • Jer 4:13
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    13Behold, he comes up like clouds, his chariots are like a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

  • Isa 1:16
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    16Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil.

  • Jer 4:3-4
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    3For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.

    4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my wrath will break out like a fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your wicked deeds.

  • Lam 1:7-9
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    7In the days of her affliction and wandering, Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, there was no one to help her. Her enemies saw her and mocked her downfall.

    8Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

    9Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."

  • Jer 4:15-18
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    15A voice declares from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.

    16Warn the nations, proclaim it against Jerusalem: 'Watchers are coming from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.'

    17They surround her like men guarding a field because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD.

    18Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • Lam 1:17
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    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 3:17
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    17At that time they will call Jerusalem the Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

  • Jer 4:10-11
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    10Then I said, 'Ah, Lord GOD, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace,’ when the sword is at their throats.'

    11At that time, it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A scorching wind from the barren heights of the desert blows toward the daughter of my people—not to winnow or cleanse.

  • Isa 52:1-2
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    1Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean will never enter you again.

    2Shake off the dust, rise up; sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains around your neck, captive Daughter of Zion.

  • Ezek 16:2
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    2Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

  • Ezek 24:13
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    13Because of your unclean behavior and wickedness, though I tried to cleanse you, you would not be clean. You will not be cleansed again until I have satisfied my wrath upon you.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

  • Ezek 9:4
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    4The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.'

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

  • Zeph 3:14
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    14Sing aloud, Daughter Zion; shout, Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!

  • Mic 3:12
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    12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Jer 15:5
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    5Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask how you are?

  • Isa 22:1
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    1This is an oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What is wrong with you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?

  • Zech 13:1
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    1On that day, a fountain will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

  • Jer 7:29
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    29Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation of his wrath.

  • Jer 4:1
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    1If Israel, declares the LORD, you will return to me, you must remove your detestable things from my presence and not wander away.

  • Zech 8:15
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    15so now I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Do not be afraid.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9"This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Dan 9:16
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    16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, let Your anger and wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of scorn to all those around us.

  • Zeph 3:1
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    1Woe to the rebellious and defiled city, the oppressive one!

  • Lam 4:12-13
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    12Neither the kings of the earth nor the inhabitants of the world believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

    13It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

  • Isa 64:10
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    10Our holy and glorious house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.

  • Ezek 24:6
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    6Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it and whose rust will not come off! Take its pieces out one by one; no lot will be cast for them.

  • Mic 2:10
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    10Get up and leave, for this is not your resting place! Because it is defiled, it brings destruction—a grievous destruction.

  • Zech 14:1
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    1Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when your plunder will be divided in your midst.

  • Isa 3:8
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    8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and actions are against the LORD, challenging His glorious presence.

  • Mic 1:9
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    9For her wound is incurable; it has even reached Judah. It has reached the gates of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.

  • Isa 51:17
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    17Wake yourself, wake yourself! Arise, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of His wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl of staggering.

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    5Why then has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold tightly to deceit; they refuse to return.

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    30‘How weak is your heart,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘that you do all these things, the actions of a brazen prostitute!