Jeremiah 18:7
What does Jeremiah 18:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 18:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
KJV
King James Version · 1611At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,
Context
v.6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
v.7This passage
v.8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 12:14
Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
- Jeremiah 45:4
Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
- Jonah 3:4
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
- Amos 9:8
Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 1:10
see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.
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