King James Version
Jeremiah 18:10 in the King James Version says “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 t...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Jeremiah 18:10 · KJV
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.
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
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.
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
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“in my sight”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n
“that it obey”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“then I will repent”
H5162properly, to sigh, i.e., breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e., (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavo
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“of the good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“I would benefit”
H3190to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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