Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 36:3

3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity, and their sin .

What we translate it may be [non-Latin text not transcribed] others translate if perhaps which better expresseth the sense. God knew what would be, but yet he would not be wanting in means by which they might be informed in his will, and so believe the thing, for believing and reforming are here meant by hearing, as the next words in part expound this term here.

Forgiveness of sin in Scripture sometimes signifieth the acquitting of a sinner from the obligation sin layeth the sinner under to Eternal death, sometimes the remission of a temporal punishment, it may here well be understood as comprehending both, though I think the latter to be what is here principally intended.