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O Jerusalem, wash thine heart; cleanse your inward parts, O ye men of Jerusalem; not your hands only, as hypocrites do, but your hearts, Jam_4:8. The same exhortation with Jer_4:3,4, only in another metaphor of washing, which seems to be taken from such potions first physicians give to clear away the inward parts from noxious humours. See Isa_1:16,17.
From wickedness; viz. from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, 2Co_7:1 Jam_1:21.
That thou mayest be saved: this hath reference in this place to temporal salvation; it is prescribed as a means to prevent the judgments that are impending on them, as is plainly expressed, Jer_4:4, yet not exclusive of spiritual salvation, 2Th_2:13 Tit_3:5.
Vain thoughts; wicked thoughts, or rather hopes or expectation from any helps, Jer_2:5,37; pleasing thyself with vain fancies of safety and security, which thoughts of thine will assuredly bring ruin and misery upon thee, which is inevitably coming, as in the next verse.