Jeremiah Chapter 18 verse 7 Holy Bible
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
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Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
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At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
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The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 7, 8. - At what instant, etc.; rather, One instant I may speak... but if that nation, against which 1 have spoken, turn from their evil, I repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. A similar rendering for the next verse.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7-10) At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation . . .--The words carry the thoughts of the prophet back to those which had been stamped indelibly on his memory when he was first called to his work (Jeremiah 1:10). He is now taught that that work was throughout conditional. In bold anthropomorphic speech Jehovah represents himself as changing His purpose, even suddenly, "in an instant," if the nation that is affected by it passes from evil to good or from good to evil. The seeming change is but the expression of an unchanged eternal Law of Righteousness, dealing with men according to their works. This, and not the assertion of an arbitrary, irresistibly predestinating will, was the lesson the prophet had been taught by the parable of the potter's wheel.
