Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
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 them.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Holman Bible
However, if that nation I have made an announcement about turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.
International Standard Version
But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I'll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it.
A Conservative Version
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
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.
Amplified
if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And that nation which I spake against it turned back from its evil, and I lamented for the evil which I proposed to do to it.
King James 2000
If that nation, against whom I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will change from the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Lexham Expanded 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
if that people against whom I have thus devised convert from their wickedness: Immediately, I repent of the plague, that I devised to bring upon them.
NET Bible
But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.
New Heart 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.
The 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.
Webster
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.
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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Evil » The reward for doing evil
Government » God setting up and removing kings
Judgments » May be averted by » Forsaking iniquity
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 18:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Potter And The Clay
7 The instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up and to pull it down, and to destroy it; 8 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 them. 9 And the instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build it and to plant it;
Cross References
Jeremiah 26:13
So now make your ways and your doings good, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God. And Jehovah will repent of the evil that He has spoken against you.
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he has committed, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Jeremiah 26:3
It may be that they will listen, and each man turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I plan to do to them because of the evil of their doings.
Judges 2:18
And when Jehovah raised judges up for them, then Jehovah was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah took pity because of their groanings before their oppressors and their crushers.
Hosea 11:8
How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.
Psalm 106:45
and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.
Jeremiah 7:3-7
So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Make your ways and your doings good, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Joel 2:13-14
Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to Jehovah your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.
Jonah 3:9-10
Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.
Luke 13:3-5
I tell you, No. But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Exodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and be moved to pity as to this evil against Your people.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For Jehovah will bring His people justice; and He shall have compassion on His servants, for He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain.
Judges 10:15-16
And the sons of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do You to us whatever is good in Your eyes; only deliver us, we pray You, today.
1 Kings 8:33-34
When Your people Israel are crushed before the enemy because they have sinned against You, and shall turn again to You and confess Your name, and pray, and cry to You in this house,
2 Chronicles 12:6
And the rulers of Israel and the king humbled themselves. And they said, Jehovah is righteous.
Psalm 90:13
Return, O Jehovah! How long? And give pity to Your servants.
Psalm 135:14
For Jehovah will judge His people, and He will have pity on His servants.
Isaiah 1:16-19
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;
Jeremiah 15:6
You have forsaken Me, says Jehovah; you have gone backward; therefore I will stretch out My hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah indeed put him to death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and pray to Jehovah, and Jehovah repented of the evil which He had spoken against them? So we are doing great evil against our souls.
Jeremiah 36:3
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I plan to do to them, that they may each man turn from his evil way, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Jeremiah 42:10
If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and will not pull you down. And I will plant you and will not pluck you up. For I repent of the evil that I have done to you.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to live. Turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 33:13
When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
Amos 7:3-6
Jehovah repented for this; It shall not be, says Jehovah.
Jonah 2:5-10
Waters encompassed me, even to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.
Jonah 4:2
And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to Tarshish. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity.