Jeremiah 18:8

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Summary

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.

That nation

I will

General references

Exodus 32:14

Bible References

That nation

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says:

Perhaps the house of Judah will hear about all the calamity that I'm planning to bring on them, and so each of them will turn from his wicked way and I'll forgive their iniquities and sins."

The Israelis replied to the LORD, "We have sinned, so do to us anything that's right to do in your opinion, just please deliver us right now."

"If your people Israel are defeated in a battle with their enemy because they have sinned against you, when they return to you and confess to you, pray, and in this Temple they ask you to show grace to them,

In response, the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and declared, "The LORD is righteous."

"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

But if the wicked person turns from all his sins, which he did and keeps my statutes, then he'll live. He won't die.

"Tell them, "As certainly as I'm alive and living,' declares the Lord GOD, "I receive no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Instead, my pleasure is that the wicked repent from their behavior and live. Turn back! Turn back, all of you, from your wicked behavior! Why do you have to die, you house of Israel?'"

Flood waters encompassed me, the deep surrounded me while seaweed wrapped around my head.

Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die.

I will

You have deserted me," declares the LORD. "You keep going backward. I'll reach out my hand and destroy you. I'm tired of showing compassion.

Perhaps they'll listen, and each of them will repent from his evil way. Then I'll change my mind about the disaster I'm planning to bring on them because of their evil deeds.

"If you will just remain in this land, I'll build you up and not pull you down. I'll plant you and not uproot you, for I'm sorry about the disaster I've brought on you.

Why should the Egyptians say, "He brought them out with an evil intention to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your anger and change your mind about the calamity against your people.

For the LORD will vindicate his people and bring comfort to his servants, because he will observe that their power has waned, when neither prisoner nor free person remain.

As a result, whenever the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD remained present with their leader, delivering Israel from the control of their enemies during the lifetime of that leader. The LORD was moved with compassion by their groaning that had been caused by those who were oppressing and persecuting them.

Please return, LORD! When will it be? Comfort your servants.

he remembered his covenant with them, and so relented according to the greatness of his gracious love.

For the LORD will vindicate his people, and he will show compassion on his servants.

"How can I give up on you, Ephraim? I will deliver you, will I not, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? I can't make you like Zeboim, can I? My heart stirs within me; my compassion also fans into flame!

Tear your hearts, not your garments; and turn back to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to become angry, overflowing in gracious love, and grieves about this evil.

So the LORD relented from this. "This will not happen," said the LORD.

Who knows but that God may relent, have compassion, and turn from his fierce anger, so that we are not exterminated?"

So he prayed to the LORD, "LORD, isn't this what I said while I was still in my home country? That's why I fled previously to Tarshish, because I knew you're a compassionate God, slow to anger, overflowing with gracious love, and reluctant to send trouble.

General references

So the LORD changed his mind about the calamity he had said he would bring on his people.