Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it.

King James Version

If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Holman Bible

However, if it does what is evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.

International Standard Version

But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I'll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.

A Conservative Version

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

American Standard Version

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Amplified

and if they do evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will reverse My decision concerning the good with which I had promised to bless them.

Bible in Basic English

If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.

Darby Translation

if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Julia Smith Translation

And it did evil in mine eyes not to hear to my voice, and I lamented for the good which I said to do well to it

King James 2000

If it does evil in my sight, that it obeys not my voice, then I will change from the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But [if] it does evil in my sight, to not listen to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said I would do [to] it.

Modern King James verseion

if it does evil in My sight, not to obey My voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would do them good.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

if the same people do evil before me, and hear not my voice: Immediately, I repent of the good, that I devised to do for them.

NET Bible

But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.

New Heart English Bible

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

The Emphasized Bible

and it commit wickedness in mine eyes, in not hearkening unto my voice, then will I repent concerning the good wherewith I had said I would do it good.

Webster

If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

World English Bible

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

Youngs Literal Translation

And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If it do

Usage: 0

in my sight
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

not my voice
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

then I will repent
נחם 
Nacham 
Usage: 108

יטב 
Yatab 
Usage: 115

References

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

The Potter And The Clay

9 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, 10 if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it. 11 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.'

Cross References

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,'but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Ezekiel 33:18

When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.

1 Samuel 13:13

And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.

Numbers 14:22

none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,

Numbers 14:34

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

1 Samuel 15:11

"I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.

1 Samuel 15:35

And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Jeremiah 7:23-28

But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

Ezekiel 45:20

You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the LORD, who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him."

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