Jeremiah 18:8

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But if that nation I have warned repents of its evil, then I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to bring upon it.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    if that nation,{H1471} concerning which I have spoken,{H1696} turn{H7725} from their evil,{H7451} I will repent{H5162} of the evil{H7451} that I thought{H2803} to do{H6213} unto them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    If that nation{H1471}, against whom I have pronounced{H1696}{(H8765)}, turn{H7725}{(H8804)} from their evil{H7451}, I will repent{H5162}{(H8738)} of the evil{H7451} that I thought{H2803}{(H8804)} to do{H6213}{(H8800)} unto them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    yff that people (agaynst whom I haue thus deuysed) couerte from their wickednes: Immediatly, I repente off the plage, that I deuysed to bringe vpon the.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But if this nation, against whom I haue pronounced, turne from their wickednesse, I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring vpon them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    If that people agaynst whom I haue thus deuised, conuert from their wickednesse, I repent of the plague that I deuised to bryng vpon them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 18:21 : 21 But if the wicked turn from all their sins that they have committed, keep all my statutes, and do what is just and right, they will live; they will not die.
  • Jer 26:13 : 13 'Now, therefore, amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God. Then the LORD will relent concerning the disaster that He has pronounced against you.'
  • Judg 2:18 : 18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.
  • Hos 11:8 : 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender.
  • Jer 26:3 : 3 Perhaps they will listen and turn, each one, from their evil ways. Then I will relent concerning the disaster that I plan to bring on them because of the evil they have done.
  • Jonah 3:9-9 : 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent and withdraw His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.” 10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He relented and did not bring upon them the disaster He had threatened.
  • Joel 2:13-14 : 13 Tear open your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and he relents from sending calamity. 14 Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing—grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
  • Amos 7:3-6 : 3 So the Lord relented concerning this: 'It will not happen,' said the Lord. 4 This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. 5 Then I said, 'Lord God, please stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!' 6 So the Lord relented concerning this: 'This will not happen either,' said the Lord God.
  • Luke 13:3-5 : 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. 4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
  • Ps 106:45 : 45 He remembered His covenant with them and relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.
  • Jer 7:3-7 : 3 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.' 4 Do not trust deceitful words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’ 5 For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice between a person and their neighbor, 6 if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or follow other gods, bringing harm upon yourselves, 7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors forever and ever.
  • Jer 15:6 : 6 'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from their ways and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?'
  • Ezek 33:13 : 13 If I say to the righteous person, 'You will surely live,' but they trust in their righteousness and commit iniquity, none of their righteous acts will be remembered. They will die because of the iniquity they have committed.
  • Jer 26:19 : 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and plead for His favor? And the LORD relented concerning the disaster that He pronounced against them. But we are about to bring a terrible disaster upon ourselves!
  • Jer 36:3 : 3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear about all the disaster I intend to bring upon them, so that each one may turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.
  • Jer 42:10 : 10 "If you will indeed stay in this land, I will build you up and will not tear you down; I will plant you and will not uproot you, for I will relent concerning the disaster I have brought upon you.
  • Ps 135:14 : 14 For the LORD will judge His people and have compassion on His servants.
  • Isa 1:16-19 : 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good; seek justice, correct the oppressor. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow. 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
  • Exod 32:12 : 12 Why should the Egyptians say, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent concerning this disaster against your people.
  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one is left—neither slave nor free.
  • Judg 10:15-16 : 15 The Israelites said to the LORD, 'We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good to You, but please save us today.' 16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 8:33-34 : 33 When Your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against You, and if they turn back to You, confess Your name, pray, and plead with You in this house, 34 then hear from heaven, forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land You gave to their ancestors.
  • 2 Chr 12:6 : 6 The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
  • Ps 90:13 : 13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed to the LORD, saying, 'O LORD, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own land? That is why I tried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from sending calamity.
  • Jonah 2:5-9 : 5 I said, 'I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' 6 The waters engulfed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. 7 To the roots of the mountains, I descended. The earth beneath barred me in forever, but You brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God. 8 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple. 9 Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from their faithful love. 10 But I, with shouts of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. What I have vowed I will fulfill. Salvation comes from the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    9 And at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or kingdom, to build it up or to plant it.

    10 But if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good I had promised to bless it with.

    11 And now, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each one from his evil way, and reform your ways and deeds.’

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    3 Perhaps they will listen and turn, each one, from their evil ways. Then I will relent concerning the disaster that I plan to bring on them because of the evil they have done.

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    80%

    7 At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it.

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    79%

    8 But let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out to God with fervor. Let each turn from his evil ways and from the violence in their hands.

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    10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He relented and did not bring upon them the disaster He had threatened.

  • Jer 42:10
    78%

    10 "If you will indeed stay in this land, I will build you up and will not tear you down; I will plant you and will not uproot you, for I will relent concerning the disaster I have brought upon you.

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    14 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Just as I planned to bring disaster upon you when your ancestors angered me, says the LORD of Hosts, and I did not relent,

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    14 So the LORD relented concerning the disaster He had said He would bring on His people.

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    77%

    13 'Now, therefore, amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God. Then the LORD will relent concerning the disaster that He has pronounced against you.'

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    76%

    47 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly';

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    75%

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    74%

    3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear about all the disaster I intend to bring upon them, so that each one may turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.

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    73%

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    7 Perhaps they will bring their plea before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way, for great are the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

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    72%

    12 Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

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    72%

    28 Because of this, the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark. For I have spoken, I have purposed, and I will not relent or turn back from it.

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    71%

    19 But if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live because of it.

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    71%

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  • Jer 15:19
    71%

    19 Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'If you return, then I will restore you; you will stand before Me. If you extract the precious from the worthless, you will be My spokesman. They must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.'

  • Acts 8:22
    71%

    22 Repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such thoughts in your heart.

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    10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger may turn away from us.

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    71%

    8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender.

  • Jer 6:19
    71%

    19 Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to My words and have rejected My law.

  • Amos 7:6
    71%

    6 So the Lord relented concerning this: 'This will not happen either,' said the Lord God.

  • Isa 55:7
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    7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

  • Lev 26:41
    71%

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  • Jer 3:12
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