Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy [it]. 8 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. 9 And the [next] moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant [it].
Cross References
Jeremiah 26:13
Now {therefore} amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent of the disaster that he has spoken over you.
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the wicked returns from all of his sins that he has done and he keeps all of my statutes and he does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die!
Jeremiah 26:3
Perhaps they will listen and turn back each from his evil way, and I will relent of the disaster that I [am] planning to do to them because of their evil deeds.
Judges 2:18
And when Yahweh raised leaders for them, Yahweh was with the leader, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader, for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors.
Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, Ephraim? [How] can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? [How] can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is disturbed within me; {all} my compassions are aroused.
Psalm 106:45
And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.
Jeremiah 7:3-7
Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Make your ways and your deeds good and let me dwell with you in this place.
Joel 2:13-14
Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he [is] gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger} and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.
Jonah 3:9-10
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn {from his blazing anger} {so that} we will not perish."
Luke 13:3-5
No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!
Exodus 32:12
Why should [the] Egyptians {say}, 'With evil [intent] he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from {your fierce anger} and relent concerning the disaster for your people.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For Yahweh will judge [on behalf of] his people, and concerning his servants; he will change his mind when he sees that [their] power has disappeared, and [there is] no one left, confined or free.
Judges 10:15-16
And the {Israelites} said to Yahweh, "We have sinned; {do to us accordingly as you see fit}; only please deliver us this day."
1 Kings 8:33-34
When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy {because} they sinned against you, and [when] they turn to you and confess your name and pray and beg for mercy from you in this house,
2 Chronicles 12:6
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh [is] righteous."
Psalm 90:13
Return, O Yahweh. How long? And have compassion on your servants.
Psalm 135:14
for Yahweh will plead [the] cause [of] his people and will have compassion on his servants.
Isaiah 1:16-19
Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!
Jeremiah 15:6
You have forsaken me," {declares} Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful.
Jeremiah 26:19
[Did] Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and all Judah actually put him to death? [Was he] not in fear of Yahweh? And he entreated the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster that he had spoken against them. But we [are] about to do great disaster to ourselves."
Jeremiah 36:3
Perhaps [when] the house of Judah hears all the disasters that I [am] planning to do to them, then they may turn back each one from his evil way, and I will forgive their guilt and their sin."
Jeremiah 42:10
'If only you will stay in this land, then I will build you and I will not tear [you] down, and I will plant you and I will not pluck [you] up, for I relent of the disaster that I have brought to you.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, '{As I live},' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, '{Surely I have no delight} in the death of the wicked, {except} in [the] wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil [ones], for why should you die, house of Israel?'
Ezekiel 33:13
When I say to the righteous, 'Certainly he will live,' and he trusted in his righteousness, and he [turns and he] does injustice, all of his righteousness will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die.
Amos 7:3-6
Yahweh relented concerning this. "It will not be," said Yahweh.
Jonah 2:5-10
[The] waters encompassed me up to [my] neck; [the] deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
Jonah 4:2
And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, [was] this not {what I said} while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled} to Tarshish, because I knew that you [are] a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love}, and one who relents concerning calamity.