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Jeremiah 18:8 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 18 · verse 8
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.Jeremiah 18:8 · King James Version
Jeremiah 18:8 in context
6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10If 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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- pronounceddâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- thoughtchâshabproperly, to plait or interpenetrateH2803 →
- nationgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- repentnâchamproperly, to sighH5162 →
- turnshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
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The prophet is here sent to the potter's house (he knew where to find it), not to preach a sermon as before to the gates of Jerusalem, but to prepare a sermon, or rather to receive it ready prepared. Those needed not to study their sermons that had them, as he had this, by immediate inspiration.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10