Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
At that instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,
New American Standard Bible
At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to
King James Version
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
Holman Bible
At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.
International Standard Version
At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it.
American Standard Version
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
Amplified
At one moment I might [suddenly] speak concerning a nation or kingdom, that I will uproot and break down and destroy;
Bible in Basic English
Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Darby Translation
At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,
Julia Smith Translation
The moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy:
King James 2000
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
Lexham Expanded Bible
One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy [it].
Modern King James verseion
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;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When I take in hand to root out, to destroy, or to waste away any people or kingdom;
NET Bible
There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.
New Heart English Bible
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
The Emphasized Bible
The moment I speak, concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, - to pull up and to break down, and to destroy;
Webster
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
World English Bible
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
Youngs Literal Translation
The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,
Themes
Evil » The reward for doing evil
Government » God setting up and removing kings
Topics
Interlinear
Dabar
Nathats
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 18:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Potter And The Clay
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. 7 At that instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, 8 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.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:10
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.
Jeremiah 12:14-17
Thus says LORD against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
Jeremiah 25:9-14
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations roun
Jeremiah 45:4
Thus thou shall say to him, Thus says LORD: Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, and this in the whole land.
Amos 9:8
Behold, the eyes of lord LORD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says LORD.
Jonah 3:4
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.