Jeremiah 18:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

If it does evil in my sight, so that it does not obey my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    If 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    if they do{H6213} that which is evil{H7451} in my sight,{H5869} that they obey{H8085} not my voice,{H6963} then I will repent{H5162} of the good,{H2896} wherewith I said{H559} I would benefit{H3190} them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    If it do{H6213}{(H8804)} evil{H7451} in my sight{H5869}, that it obey{H8085}{(H8800)} not my voice{H6963}, then I will repent{H5162}{(H8738)} of the good{H2896}, wherewith I said{H559}{(H8804)} I would benefit{H3190}{(H8687)} them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    yff the same people do euell before me, and heare not my voyce: Immediatly, I repente of the good, that I deuysed to do for them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But if it do euill in my sight and heare not my voyce, I will repent of ye good that I thought to do for them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    If the same people do euyll before me and heare not my voyce, I repent of the good that I haue deuised for them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    If 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I did indeed say that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: for now the LORD would have established your kingdom upon Israel forever.
  • Ezek 33:18 : 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.
  • Ezek 18:24 : 24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
  • 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It grieves Me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be upon Israel.
  • Jer 7:23-28 : 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. 24 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. 27 Therefore you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you. 28 But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
  • Num 14:22 : 22 Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
  • 1 Sam 15:35 : 35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.
  • Ezek 45:20 : 20 And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so shall you make atonement for the house.
  • Num 14:34 : 34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.

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