Parallel Verses English Standard Version and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. King James Bible 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 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. Douay-Rheims Bible If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them. English Revised 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Jeremiah 18:8 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe emblem and its interpretation. - Jeremiah 18:2. "Arise and go down into the potter's house; there will I cause thee to hear my words. Jeremiah 18:3. And I went down into the potter's house; and, behold, he wrought on the wheels. Jeremiah 18:4. And the vessel was marred, that he wrought in clay, in the hand of the potter; then he made again another vessel of it, as seemed good to the potter to make. Jeremiah 18:5. Then came the word of Jahveh to me, saying: Jeremiah 18:6. Cannot I do with you as this potter, house of Israel? saith Jahveh. Behold, as the clay in the hand of the potter, so are ye in mine hand, house of Israel. Jeremiah 18:7. Now I speak concerning a people and kingdom, to root it out and pluck up and destroy it. Jeremiah 18:8. But if that people turns from its wickedness, against which I spake, the it repents me of the evil which I thought to do it. Jeremiah 18:9. And now I speak concerning a people and a kingdom, to build and to plant it. Jeremiah 18:10. If it do that which is evil in mine eyes, so that it hearkens not unto my voice, then it repents me of the good which I said I would do unto it." By God's command Jeremiah is to go and see the potter's treatment of the clay, and to receive thereafter God's interpretation of the same. Here he has set before his eyes that which suggests a comparison of man to the clay and of God to the potter, a comparison that frequently occurred to the Hebrews, and which had been made to appear in the first formation of man (cf. Job 10:9; Job 33:6; Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 64:7). This is done that he may forcibly represent to the people, by means of the emblem, the power of the Lord to do according to His will with all nations, and so with Israel too. From the "go down," we gather that the potteries of Jerusalem lay in a valley near the city. האבנים are the round frames by means of which the potter moulded his vessels. This sig. of the word is well approved here; but in Exodus 1:16, where too it is found, the meaning is doubtful, and it is a question whether the derivation is from אבן or from אופן, wheel. The perfecta consec. ונשׁחת and ושׁב designate, taken in connection with the participle עשׂה, actions that were possibly repeated: "and if the vessel was spoilt, he made it over again;" cf. Ew. 342, b. עשׂה , working in clay, of the material in which men work in order to make something of it; cf. Exodus 31:4. (Note: Instead of בּחמר several codd. and editt. have כּחמר, as in Jeremiah 18:6, to which Ew. and Hitz. both take objection, so that they delete כחמר (Ew.) or כּחמר בּיד היּוצר (Hitz.) as being glosses, since the words are not in the lxx. The attempts of Umbr. and Nag. to obtain a sense for כּחמר are truly of such a kind as only to strengthen the suspicion of spuriousness. Umbr., who is followed by Graf, expounds: "as the clay in the hand of the potter does;" whereto Hitz. justly replies: "but is then the (failure) solely its own doing?" Ng. will have כ to be the כ verit.: the vessel was marred, as clay in the hand of the potter, in which case the כחמר still interrupts. But the failure of the attempts to make a good sense of כחמר does in no respect justify the uncritical procedure of Ew. and Hitz. in deleting the word without considering that the reading is by no means established, since not only do the most important and correct editions and a great number of codd. read בּחמר, but Aquila, Theodot., the Chald, and Syr. give this reading; Norzi and Houbig. call it lectio accuratiorum codicum, and the Masora on Jeremiah 18:6 and Job 10:9 confirms it. Cf. de Rossi variae lectt. ad h. l. and the critical remarks in the Biblia Hal. by J. H. Michaelis, according to which כחמר plainly made its way into the present verse from Jeremiah 18:6 by the error of a copyist; and it can only be from his prejudice in favour of the lxx that Hitz. pronounces כחמר original, as being "the reading traditionally in use.") Treasury of Scripture Knowledge that nation. Luke 13:3-5 I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish... I will. Judges 2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge... Psalm 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants. Psalm 135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants. Amos 7:3-6 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, said the LORD... Cross References Psalm 106:45 For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love. Jeremiah 7:3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people. Jeremiah 26:3 It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds. Jeremiah 26:13 Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you. Jeremiah 36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." Jeremiah 42:10 If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you. Jump to Previous Calamity Changed Disaster Evil Inflict Intended Minute Nation Planned Pronounced Purpose Relent Repent Repented Repents Talking Thought Turn Turned Turns WarnedJump to Next Calamity Changed Disaster Evil Inflict Intended Minute Nation Planned Pronounced Purpose Relent Repent Repented Repents Talking Thought Turn Turned Turns WarnedLinks Jeremiah 18:8 NIVJeremiah 18:8 NLT Jeremiah 18:8 ESV Jeremiah 18:8 NASB Jeremiah 18:8 KJV Jeremiah 18:8 Bible Apps Jeremiah 18:8 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 18:8 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 18:8 French Bible Jeremiah 18:8 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |