Jeremiah 18:8
If that nation, against which I have spoken, will repent from their evil, I too will repent from the evil that I have decided I would do to them.
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In Context
9And soon, I will speak about a nation and about a kingdom, so that I may build and plant it.
Cross References
Exodus 32:14And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had spoken against his people.
Judges 2:18And while the Lord was raising up the judges, in their days, he was moved to mercy, and he listened to the groaning of the afflicted, and he freed them from the slaughter of their oppressors.
1 Kings 8:33And if your people Israel will have fled from their enemies, because they have sinned against you, and doing penance and confessing to your name, shall arrive and pray and petition you in this house,
Psalms 90:13You will walk over the asp and the king serpent, and you will trample the lion and the dragon.
Psalms 135:14And he led out Israel through the middle of it, for his mercy is eternal.
Jeremiah 7:3Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Make your ways and your intentions good, and I will live with you in this place.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:2-11
The Sovereign Prerogative of God; Divine Goodness and Equity. ( b. c. 600.) 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 6 O… Read the whole commentary →