Verse 8

Jeremiah 18:8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

8 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.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/שָׁב֙ הַ/גּ֣וֹי הַ/ה֔וּא מֵ/רָ֣עָת֔/וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי עָלָ֑י/ו וְ/נִֽחַמְתִּי֙ עַל הָ֣/רָעָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָשַׁ֖בְתִּי לַ/עֲשׂ֥וֹת לֽ/וֹ

English Translation

And the nation will return from the evil that I spoke concerning it, and I will be comforted concerning the evil that I thought to do to it.

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Chapter 18 Context

1 The word that came from Jeremias to the Lord, saying: Focus ↗

2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words. Focus ↗

3 And I went down into the potter's house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel. Focus ↗

4 And the vessel was broken which he was making with clay with his hands: and turning he made another... Focus ↗

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Focus ↗

6 Cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so... Focus ↗

7 I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to... Focus ↗

8 If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the ev...

9 And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it. Focus ↗

10 If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have sp... Focus ↗

11 Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: B... Focus ↗

12 And they said: We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one acc... Focus ↗

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the vi... Focus ↗

14 Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out... Focus ↗

15 Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient pa... Focus ↗

16 That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pa... Focus ↗

17 As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in t... Focus ↗

18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from t... Focus ↗

19 Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. Focus ↗

20 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have st... Focus ↗

21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their... Focus ↗

22 Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly: because... Focus ↗

23 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and l... Focus ↗

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