Jeremías 18:8

8 pero luego esa nación renuncia a sus malos caminos, no la destruiré como lo había planeado.

Jeremías 18:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 18:8

If that nation against whom I have pronounced
Such a sentence as this, should immediately, upon the above declaration, do as Nineveh did: turn from their evil;
their evil of sin, their evil ways and works, as an evidence of the truth of their repentance for former sins: I will repent of the evil that one thought to do unto them;
as they change their course of life, God will change the dispensations of his providence towards them, and not bring upon them the evil of punishment he threatened them with; in which sense repentance can only be understood of God, he doing that which is similar to what men do when they repent of anything; they stop their proceedings, and change their outward conduct; so God proceeds not to do what he threatened to do, and changes his outward behaviour to men; he wills a change, and makes one in his methods of acting, but never changes his will.

Jeremías 18:8 In-Context

6 «¡Oh, Israel! ¿No puedo hacer contigo lo mismo que hizo el alfarero con el barro? De la misma manera que el barro está en manos del alfarero, así estás en mis manos.

7 Si anuncio que voy a desarraigar, a derribar y a destruir a cierta nación o a cierto reino,

8 pero luego esa nación renuncia a sus malos caminos, no la destruiré como lo había planeado.

9 Y si anuncio que plantaré y edificaré a cierta nación o a cierto reino,

10 pero después esa nación hace lo malo y se niega a obedecerme, no la bendeciré como dije que lo haría.