Jeremiah 18:8

Jeremiah 18:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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 (ESV)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 King James Version (NKJV)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 (NLT)but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned.

Context of Jeremiah 18:8

6He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

Jeremiah 18:8 word by word

וְשָׁב֙ הַגּ֣וֹי הַה֔וּא מֵרָ֣עָת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי עָלָ֑יו וְנִֽחַמְתִּי֙ עַל־הָ֣רָעָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָשַׁ֖בְתִּי לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת לֽוֹ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If that nationגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• against whom I have pronouncedדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• turnשׁוּבshûb · to return: turn backH7725
• from their evilרָעָהra‛ râ‛âh · distress: evilH7451
• I will repentנָחַםnâcham · to be sorry: relentH5162
• of the evilרָעָהra‛ râ‛âh · distress: harmH7451
• that I thoughtחָשַׁבchâshab · to devise: deviseH2803
• to doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213

Cross-references for Jeremiah 18:8

• Jeremiah 7:3This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.
• Jeremiah 36:3Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked ways; then I will forgive their wickedness and their sin.”
• Judges 10:15But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”
• 1 Kings 8:33“When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, and when they turn back to you and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication to you in this temple,
• 2 Chronicles 12:6The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”
• Isaiah 1:16Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
• Ezekiel 18:21“But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
• Ezekiel 33:11Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’
• Jonah 2:5The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
• Luke 13:3I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
• Jeremiah 15:6You have rejected me,” declares the Lord. “You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and destroy you; I am tired of holding back.
• Jeremiah 26:3Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.
• Jeremiah 42:10‘If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I have relented concerning the disaster I have inflicted on you.
• Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.
• Deuteronomy 32:36The Lord will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
• Judges 2:18Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the Lord relented because of their groaning under those who oppressed and afflicted them.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 18:8

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8I 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.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-10If a nation or kingdom rejected the one true God, God could decide to uproot, tear down, and destroy it (see Jeremiah 1:10). If the nation changed its evil ways, the Lord's anger would ease, and he would not destroy it.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. their evil--in antithesis to, "the evil that I thought to do." repent--God herein adapts Himself to human conceptions. The change is not in God, but in the circumstances which regulate God's dealings: just as we say the land recedes from us when we sail forth, whereas it is we who recede from the land (Eze 18:21; 33:11). God's unchangeable principle is to do the best that can be done under all circumstances; if then He did not take into account the…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 18:8

• Contingencies
• Government
• Nation
• Repentance

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings