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Jeremiah 18:8
8But if that nation turns from their evil, because of what I have spoken against it, I will relent concerning the calamity that I planned to do to it.
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.
- New International Version (NIV)and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
- 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.
Context of Jeremiah 18:8
6“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares Adonai. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. 7At one moment I may speak about a nation or about a kingdom, to uproot, to pull down or to destroy it. But if that nation turns from their evil, because of what I have spoken against it, I will relent concerning the calamity that I planned to do to it. 9Or at another time I may speak about a nation or about a kingdom, to build up or to plant it. 10But if it does evil in My sight, not listening to My voice, then I will relent of the good that I had said I would do to it.”
Read all of Jeremiah 18Jeremiah 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 7:3Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel; mend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
- Jeremiah 36:3Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the calamity that I am planning to do to them, in order that they may turn, each one from his evil way. Then I would forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
- Judges 10:15Then Bnei-Yisrael said to Adonai, “We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good to You, but please, deliver us this day.”
- 1 Kings 8:33“When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn back to You and confess Your Name and pray and make supplication to You in this House,
- 2 Chronicles 12:6Then the officers of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “Adonai is just.”
- Isaiah 1:16“Wash and make yourselves clean. Put away the evil of your deeds from before My eyes. Cease to do evil.
- Ezekiel 18:21But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all My laws and does what is lawful and right, he will surely live, he will not die.
- Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Return, return from your evil ways. Why will you die, O house of Israel?’
- Jonah 2:5And I said, “I have been banished from before your eyes. Yet I will continue to look toward your holy Temple.”
- Luke 13:3No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you all will perish the same way.
- Jeremiah 15:6You have cast Me off” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “You keep going backward! So I stretch out My hand against you and will destroy you. I am weary with relenting.
- Jeremiah 26:3Perhaps they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way, so I may relent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.”
- Jeremiah 42:10‘If you will still stay in this land, then will I build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you. For I will relent concerning the calamity that I have done to you.
- Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out to do evil, to slay them in the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth?’ Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this destruction against Your people.
- Deuteronomy 32:36For Adonai will judge His people— for His servants, He will relent when He sees that strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
- Judges 2:18Whenever Adonai raised judges up for them, Adonai was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Adonai was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and crushed 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
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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
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