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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Jeremiah 18:10

But if I see that nation doing evil things and not obeying me, I will think again about the good I had planned to do for them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Contingencies;   Government;   Nation;   Repentance;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Evil;   Government;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Disobedience to God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nation;   Prophecy, prophet;   Repentance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Assurance;   Decrees;   Destroy, Destruction;   Jonah, Theology of;   Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Evil;   Jeremiah;   Oracles;   Repentance of God;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Repentance;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Benefit;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
However, if it does what is evil in my sight by not listening to me, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.
Hebrew Names Version
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
King James Version
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
English Standard Version
and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.
New American Standard Bible
if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said that I would bless it.
New Century Version
But if I see it doing evil by not obeying me, I will change my mind and not carry out my plans to do good for them.
Amplified Bible
and if they do evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will reverse My decision concerning the good with which I had promised to bless them.
World English Bible
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if it do euill in my sight and heare not my voyce, I will repent of ye good that I thought to do for them.
Legacy Standard Bible
but if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good which I promised, to do good to it.
Berean Standard Bible
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
Contemporary English Version
but its people start disobeying me and doing evil, then I will change my mind and not help them at all.
Complete Jewish Bible
but if it behaves wickedly from my perspective and doesn't listen to what I say, then I change my mind and don't do the good I said I would do that would have helped it.
Darby Translation
if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them.
George Lamsa Translation
And if it does evil in my sight and does not obey my voice, then I will turn away from it the good which I said I would do to it.
Good News Translation
but then that nation disobeys me and does evil, I will not do what I said I would.
Lexham English Bible
But if it does evil in my sight, to not listen to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said I would do to it.
Literal Translation
if it does evil in My eye, not to obey My voice, then I will repent of the good which I had said to do good to it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yff the same people do euell before me, and heare not my voyce: Immediatly, I repente of the good, that I deuysed to do for them.
American Standard Version
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Bible in Basic English
If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but if it do evil in My sight, that it hearken not to My voice, then I repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit it.
King James Version (1611)
If it doe euill in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good; wherewith I saide I would benefite them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If the same people do euyll before me and heare not my voyce, I repent of the good that I haue deuised for them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and they do evil before me, so as not to hearken to my voice, then will I repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.
English Revised Version
if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If it doith yuel bifore myn iyen, that it here not my vois, Y schal do penaunce on the good which Y spak, that Y schulde do to it.
Update Bible Version
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they do not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
Webster's Bible Translation
If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
New English Translation
But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
New King James Version
if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.
New Living Translation
but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.
New Life Bible
and if it does what is sinful in My eyes by not obeying My voice, then I will change My mind about the good I had promised to bring to it.
New Revised Standard
but if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will change my mind about the good that I had intended to do to it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and it commit wickedness in mine eyes, in not hearkening unto my voice, then will I repent concerning the good wherewith I had said I would do it good.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.
Revised Standard Version
and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.
Young's Literal Translation
And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it.

Contextual Overview

1 This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2 "Jeremiah, go down to the potter's house. I will give you my message there." 3 So I went down to the potter's house and saw him working with clay at the wheel. 4 He was making a pot from clay. But there was something wrong with the pot. So the potter used that clay to make another pot. With his hands he shaped the pot the way he wanted it to be. 5 Then this message from the Lord came to me: 6 "Family of Israel, you know that I can do the same thing with you. You are like the clay in the potter's hands, and I am the potter." This message is from the Lord . 7 "There may come a time when I will speak about a nation or a kingdom that I will pull up by its roots or tear down and destroy it. 8 But if the people of that nation change their hearts and lives and stop doing evil things, I will change my mind and not bring on them the disaster I planned. 9 There may come another time when I speak about a nation that I will build up or plant. 10 But if I see that nation doing evil things and not obeying me, I will think again about the good I had planned to do for them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

do: Jeremiah 7:23-28, Psalms 125:5, Ezekiel 18:24, Ezekiel 33:18, Ezekiel 45:20, Zephaniah 1:6

then: Numbers 14:22, Numbers 14:34, 1 Samuel 2:30, 1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 15:35

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 12:9 - to do evil Psalms 80:8 - thou hast cast

Cross-References

Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord also said, "From you will come many people—too many people to count."
Genesis 17:16
I will bless her. I will give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many new nations. Kings of nations will come from her."
Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, I said that your wife Sarah will have a son. You will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him that will continue forever with all his descendants.
Genesis 17:21
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son who Sarah will have. He will be born at this same time next year."
Genesis 18:3
Abraham said, "Sirs, please stay a while with me, your servant.
Genesis 18:5
I will get some food for you, and you can eat as much as you want. Then you can continue your journey." The three men said, "Do as you wish."
Genesis 18:8
Abraham brought the meat and some milk and cheese and set them down in front of the three men. Then he stood near the men, ready to serve them while they sat under the tree and ate.
Genesis 18:9
Then the men said to Abraham, "Where is your wife Sarah?" Abraham said, "She is there, in the tent."
Genesis 18:13
Then the Lord said to Abraham, "Sarah laughed and said she was too old to have a baby.
Genesis 18:14
But is anything too hard for the Lord ? I will come again in the spring, just as I said I would, and your wife Sarah will have a son."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If it do evil in my sight,.... What is sinful, contrary to the law and will of God, openly and publicly, in a bold and daring manner:

that it obey not my voice: in my word, and by my prophets, but turn a deaf ear to them, and slight and despise all instructions, admonitions, and reproofs:

then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them; or, "do them good" t; that is, withhold it from them, and not bestow it on them; but, on the contrary, correct or punish them according to their deserts. Thus, though God is a sovereign God, yet, in the dispensations of his providence towards kingdoms and nations, he deals with them in such a merciful and equitable manner, that there is no just reason to complain of him; and yet he maintains and keeps up his power and authority, such as the potter exercises over the clay.

t להיטיב אותו "ad benefaciendum ei", Montanus; "ut benefacerem ei", Valablus, Pagninus; "benefacturum ei", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 18:10. Jeremiah 18:7.


 
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