Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,
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.
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,
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;
Themes
Evil » The reward for doing evil
Government » God setting up and removing kings
Topics
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 18:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Potter And The Clay
6 As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So are ye in My hand, O house of Israel. 7 The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy, 8 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.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:10
See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'
Jeremiah 12:14-17
Thus said Jehovah concerning all my evil neighbours, who are striking against the inheritance that I caused my people -- Israel -- to inherit: 'Lo, I am plucking them from off their ground, And the house of Judah I pluck out of their midst.
Jeremiah 25:9-14
Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.
Jeremiah 45:4
Thus dost thou say unto him: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, that which I have built I am throwing down, and that which I have planted I am plucking up, even the whole land itself.
Amos 9:8
Lo, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are on the sinful kingdom, And I have destroyed it from off the face of the ground, Only, I destroy not utterly the house of Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Jonah 3:4
And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, 'Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'