Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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 When I take in hand to root out, to destroy, or to waste away any people or kingdom; 8 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. 9 Again. When I take in hand, to build, or to plant a people or a kingdom:
Cross References
Jeremiah 26:13
Therefore amend your ways, and your advisements, and be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God: so shall the LORD repent of the plague, that he had devised against you.
Ezekiel 18:21
And yet the wicked, if he turn from all his sins which he did, and keep all mine ordinances, and do justly and righteously; he shall live and not die.
Jeremiah 26:3
if peradventure they will hearken, and turn every man from his wicked way: that I may also repent of the plague, which I have determined to bring upon them, because of their wicked inventions.
Judges 2:18
And when the LORD raised up judges unto them, the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the LORD had compassion over their sorrowings which they had by the reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
Hosea 11:8
What great things have I given thee, O Ephraim? How faithfully have I defended thee, O Israel? Have I dealt with thee as with Adam? Or have I entreated thee like Zeboim? No, my heart is otherwise minded. Yea, my mercy is to fervent:
Psalm 106:45
He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies;
Jeremiah 7:3-7
Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel. Amend your ways and your counsels, and I will let you dwell in this place.
Joel 2:13-14
And tear your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God. For he is full of mercy and compassion, long ere he be angry, and great in mercy and repentance when he is at the point to punish.
Jonah 3:9-10
"Who can tell whether God will turn and repent, and cease from his fierce wrath, that we perish not?"
Luke 13:3-5
I tell you, Nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all in likewise perish.
Exodus 32:12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, 'For a mischief did he bring them out: even for to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth.' Turn from thy fierce wrath, and have compassion over the wickedness of thy people.
Deuteronomy 32:36
"For the LORD will do justice unto his people, and have compassion on his servants. For it shall be seen that their power shall fail, and at the last they shall be prisoned and forsaken.
Judges 10:15-16
But the children of Israel said unto the LORD, "We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever please thee, and deliver us only at this time."
1 Kings 8:33-34
When thy people Israel be put to the worse before their enemies, because they have sinned against thee, and afterward turn again to thee and praise thy name, and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house:
2 Chronicles 12:6
Whereupon the lords of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
Psalm 90:13
Turn thee again, O LORD, at the last, and be gracious unto thy servants.
Psalm 135:14
For the LORD will avenge his people, and be gracious unto his servants.
Isaiah 1:16-19
Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.
Jeremiah 15:6
seeing thou goest from me and turnest backward? Sayeth the LORD: Therefore I will stretch out mine hand against thee, to destroy thee, and I will not be entreated.
Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and the people of Judah put him to death for this? No verily, but rather feared the LORD, and made their prayer unto him. For the which cause also the LORD repented of the plague, that he had devised against them. Should we then do such a shameful deed against our souls?"
Jeremiah 36:3
That when the house of Judah heareth of the plague, which I have devised for them, they may peradventure turn, every man from his wicked way, that I may forgive their offenses and sins."
Jeremiah 42:10
If ye will dwell in this land, I shall build you up, and not break you down. I shall plant you, and not root you out. For I am pacified, as concerning the trouble that I have done to you.
Ezekiel 33:11
Tell them, 'As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but much rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn you, turn you from your ungodly ways, O ye of the house of Israel. Oh, wherefore will ye die?'
Ezekiel 33:13
If I say unto the righteous, that he shall surely live, and so he trust to his own righteousness, and do sin: then shall his righteousnesses be no more thought upon, but in the wickedness that he hath done he shall die.
Amos 7:3-6
So the LORD was gracious therein, and the LORD said, "Well, it shall not be."
Jonah 2:5-10
The water compassed me even unto the very soul of me; the deep lay about me, and the weeds were wrapped about mine head.
Jonah 4:2
And he prayed unto the LORD and said, "O LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? And therefore I hasted rather to flee to Tarshish: for I knew well enough that thou wast a merciful god, full of compassion long before thou be angry, and of great mercy and repentest when thou art come to take punishment.