Bible verse
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
Jeremiah 18:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 18.
6 “O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
7 At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
8 But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
9 And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
10 and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
11 Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
12 But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
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.
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