Discovery BoxJeremiah 4:14 
Context4:14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil 1
so that you may yet be delivered.
How long will you continue to harbor up
wicked schemes within you?
Jeremiah 37:4
Context37:4 (Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison. 2 So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased. 3
Jeremiah 48:47
Context48:47 Yet in days to come
I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” 4
says the Lord. 5
The judgment against Moab ends here.
1 tn Heb “Oh, Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil.”
2 sn This statement anticipates v. 15. Verses 3-4 are parenthetical to the narrative thread which is picked up in v. 5. They provide background information necessary for understanding the situation at the time the delegation comes to Jeremiah.
3 tn The words “as he pleased” are not in the text but are implicit in the idiom both in Hebrew and in English. They have been supplied in the translation for clarity and the sake of English idiom.
4 tn See 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.
5 tn Heb “Oracle of the
