Yeremia 4:14

4:14 “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?

Yeremia 36:19

36:19 Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must go and hide. You must not let anyone know where you are.” ² 

Yeremia 38:24

38:24 Then Zedekiah told Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about the conversation we have had. ³  If you do, you will die. ⁴ 

[4:14]  ¹ tn Heb “Oh, Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil.”

[36:19]  ² tn The verbs here are both direct imperatives but it sounds awkward to say “You and Jeremiah, go and hide” in contemporary English. The same force is accomplished by phrasing the statement as strong advice.

[38:24]  ³ tn Heb “about these words.”

[38:24]  ⁴ tn Or “so that you will not die.” Or “or you will die.” See the similar construction in 37:20 and the translator’s note there.

[38:24]  sn This is probably not a threat that the king himself will kill Jeremiah, but a premonition that if the pro-Egyptian party that was seeking to kill Jeremiah found out about the conversation they would go ahead and kill Jeremiah (cf. 38:2-4).