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Jeremiah 18:8

and if that nation I spoke against turns from its sin, then I will change My mind about the trouble I planned to bring upon it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Contingencies;   Government;   Nation;   Repentance;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Evil;   Government;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Judgments;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nation;   Prophecy, prophet;   Repentance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Assurance;   Decrees;   Destroy, Destruction;   Forgiveness;   Jonah, Theology of;   Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Evil;   Instant;   Jeremiah;   Jonah;   Oracles;   Repentance of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Potter, Pottery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Anger;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Repentance;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;   Grace, Divine;   Prophet, False;   Providence;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.
Hebrew Names Version
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
King James Version
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
English Standard Version
and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
New American Standard Bible
if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I planned to bring on it.
New Century Version
But if the people of that nation stop doing the evil they have done, I will change my mind and not carry out my plans to bring disaster to them.
Amplified Bible
if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent and reverse My decision concerning the devastation that I intended to do.
World English Bible
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if this nation, against whom I haue pronounced, turne from their wickednesse, I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring vpon them.
Legacy Standard Bible
but if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to do against it.
Berean Standard Bible
But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to inflict.
Contemporary English Version
and that nation turns from its evil, I will change my mind.
Complete Jewish Bible
but if that nation turns from their evil, which prompted me to speak against it, then I relent concerning the disaster I had planned to inflict on it.
Darby Translation
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Easy-to-Read Version
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.
George Lamsa Translation
And if that nation repent from its evil, I will turn away from it the evil which I thought to do to it.
Good News Translation
but then that nation turns from its evil, I will not do what I said I would.
Lexham English Bible
But if that nation turns back from its evil that I have threatened against it, then I will relent concerning the disaster that I planned to do to it.
Literal Translation
if that nation against whom I have spoken will turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yff that people (agaynst whom I haue thus deuysed) couerte from their wickednes: Immediatly, I repente off the plage, that I deuysed to bringe vpon the.
American Standard Version
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Bible in Basic English
If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but if that nation turn from their evil, because of which I have spoken against it, I repent of the evil that I thought to do unto it.
King James Version (1611)
If that nation against whom I haue pronounced, turne from their euill, I will repent of the euill that I thought to doe vnto them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If that people agaynst whom I haue thus deuised, conuert from their wickednesse, I repent of the plague that I deuised to bryng vpon them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I repent of the evils which I purposed to do to them.
English Revised Version
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thilke folk doith penaunce of his yuel, which Y spak ayens it, also Y schal do penaunce on the yuel, which Y thouyte to do to it.
Update Bible Version
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
Webster's Bible Translation
If that nation against which I have pronounced, shall turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
New English Translation
But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.
New King James Version
if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.
New Living Translation
but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned.
New Revised Standard
but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and that nation return from its wickedness against whom I have spoken, then will I repent concerning the calamity which I had devised to bring upon it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.
Revised Standard Version
and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.
Young's Literal Translation
And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.

Contextual Overview

1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, 2 "Go down to the pot-maker's house, and there I will let you hear My words." 3 So I went down to the pot-maker's house, and saw him making one on the wheel. 4 But the pot he was making of clay did not come out like he wanted it. So the pot-maker used the clay to make another pot that pleased him. 5 Then the Word of the Lord came to me saying, 6 "O people of Israel, can I not do with you as this potmaker has done?" says the Lord. "Like the clay in the pot-maker's hand, so are you in My hand, O people of Israel. 7 If at any time I speak about a nation, to pull up, and to break down and to destroy, 8 and if that nation I spoke against turns from its sin, then I will change My mind about the trouble I planned to bring upon it. 9 If at another time I speak about a nation, that I will build and plant it, 10 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that nation: Jeremiah 7:3-7, Jeremiah 36:3, Judges 10:15, Judges 10:16, 1 Kings 8:33, 1 Kings 8:34, 2 Chronicles 12:6, Isaiah 1:16-19, Ezekiel 18:21, Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 33:13, Jonah 2:5-10, Luke 13:3-5

I will: Jeremiah 15:6, Jeremiah 26:3, Jeremiah 26:13, Jeremiah 42:10, Exodus 32:12, Deuteronomy 32:36, Judges 2:18, Psalms 90:13, Psalms 106:45, Psalms 135:14, Hosea 11:8, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Amos 7:3-6, Jonah 3:9, Jonah 3:10, Jonah 4:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:6 - repented Exodus 32:14 - General Joshua 9:15 - made peace Judges 2:15 - against Jeremiah 7:7 - will I Jeremiah 11:17 - pronounced Jeremiah 20:16 - repented Ezekiel 33:14 - Thou shalt Zechariah 1:6 - according to our ways

Cross-References

Genesis 19:3
But he begged them, so they turned aside with him and went into his house. And he made a supper for them. He made bread without yeast, and they ate.
Deuteronomy 32:14
milk from cows and milk from the flock, the fat of lambs, rams of Bashan, goats, and the best of the grain. And you drank wine of the blood of grapes.
Judges 5:25
Sisera asked for water and she gave him milk. She brought him milk in a fine pot.
Judges 13:15
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "We ask of you, stay with us. So we may get a young goat ready for you to eat."
Nehemiah 12:44
On that day men were chosen for the work of the store-rooms for the gifts, the first-fruits, and the tenth part for the Lord. They were to gather into them from the fields near the towns what was to be given by the Law to the religious leaders and Levites. For Judah was filled with joy because of the religious leaders and Levites who did the work.
Luke 12:37
Those servants are happy when their owner finds them watching when he comes. For sure, I tell you, he will be dressed and ready to care for them. He will have them seated at the table.
Luke 17:8
No, instead you would say, ‘Get my supper ready. Dress yourself and care for me until I am through eating and drinking. Then you can eat and drink.'
Luke 24:30
As He sat at the table with them, He took the bread and gave thanks and broke it. Then He gave it to them.
Luke 24:43
He took it and ate it in front of them.
John 12:2
They made supper for Him. Martha put the food on the table. Lazarus was at the table with Him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If that nation against whom I have pronounced,.... Such a sentence as this, should immediately, upon the above declaration, do as Nineveh did:

turn from their evil; their evil of sin, their evil ways and works, as an evidence of the truth of their repentance for former sins:

I will repent of the evil that one thought to do unto them; as they change their course of life, God will change the dispensations of his providence towards them, and not bring upon them the evil of punishment he threatened them with; in which sense repentance can only be understood of God, he doing that which is similar to what men do when they repent of anything; they stop their proceedings, and change their outward conduct; so God proceeds not to do what he threatened to do, and changes his outward behaviour to men; he wills a change, and makes one in his methods of acting, but never changes his will.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will repent of the evil ... I will repent of the good - All God’s dealings with mankind are here declared to be conditional. God changeth not, all depends upon man’s conduct.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 18:8. Jeremiah 18:7.


 
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