Isaiæ 18:11

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Nunc ergo dic viro Juda, et habitatoribus Jerusalem, dicens:
Hæc dicit Dominus:
Ecce ego fingo contra vos malum,
et cogito contra vos cogitationem:
revertatur unusquisque a via sua mala,
et dirigite vias vestras et studia vestra.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Nunc ergo dic viro Juda, et habitatoribus Jerusalem, dicens : H�c dicit Dominus : Ecce ego fingo contra vos malum, et cogito contra vos cogitationem : revertatur unusquisque a via sua mala, et dirigite vias vestras et studia vestra.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Nunc ergo, dic viro Iudae et habitatoribus Ierusalem dicens: Haec dicit Dominus: Ecce ego fingo contra vos malum et cogito contra vos cogitationem; revertatur unusquisque a via sua mala, et dirigite vias vestras et opera vestra".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

go to: Genesis 11:3, Genesis 11:4, Genesis 11:7, 2 Kings 5:5, Isaiah 5:5, James 4:13, James 5:1

and devise: Jeremiah 18:18, Jeremiah 4:23, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 51:11, Micah 2:3

return: Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 7:3, Jeremiah 25:5, Jeremiah 26:3, Jeremiah 26:13, Jeremiah 35:15, Jeremiah 36:3, Jeremiah 36:7, 2 Kings 17:13, 2 Kings 22:13, Isaiah 1:16-19, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Lamentations 3:39-41, Ezekiel 13:22, Ezekiel 18:23, Ezekiel 18:30-32, Zechariah 1:3, Acts 26:20

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 18:22 - and the Lord Jeremiah 25:2 - General Jeremiah 36:6 - the words Lamentations 2:17 - done Ezekiel 12:3 - it may Hosea 7:13 - spoken Zechariah 1:4 - Turn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore go to,.... This is the application of the above general rules of procedure to the people of the Jews, and particularly that which relates to the destruction of a nation or kingdom, and the declaration of it in order to reclaim them:

speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

saying, thus saith the Lord; or, "to the man of Judah" u; the body of the Jewish nation, and especially the inhabitants of the metropolis of it; which was the source of sin to the whole kingdom, and on which the calamity threatened would chiefly come, if not prevented by a reformation:

behold, I frame evil against you; as the potter frames his clay upon the wheel, to which the allusion is; which is to be understood of the evil of punishment, but not of any secret purpose, and settled determination, in the mind of God to bring it upon them; for that is never disannulled by himself or others, or ever changed; but some operation in Providence, which began to work towards their destruction; some providential step which God had taken, and which threatened their ruin:

and devise a device against you; the same as before; by which it looked as if he had thought of the matter, and had contrived a scheme, which if he went on with, would issue in the subversion of their whole state:

return you everyone from his evil way; that so the reformation may be as general as the corruption was: it supposes a sense of the evil of their former conduct, and repentance for their sins, of which their forsaking and abstaining from them would be an evidence:

and make your ways and your doings good; for it is not sufficient barely to abstain from sin, which is only a negative holiness; but there must be a performance of good works, a walking in them, a constant series and course of obedience to God, according to the rule of his word.

u אל איש יהודה "ad virum Jehudah", Montanus, Cocceius, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The word rendered “frame” is a present participle, and is the same which as a noun means “a potter.” God declares that He is as free to do what He will with the Jews as the potter is free to shape as he will the clay.

Devise a device - “I am purposing a purpose.”