Jeremías 18:8

8 pero si esa nación contra la que he hablado se vuelve de su maldad, me arrepentiré del mal que pensaba traer sobre ella.

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 ¿No puedo yo hacer con vosotros, casa de Israel, lo mismo que hace este alfarero?declara el SEÑOR. He aquí, como el barro en manos del alfarero, así sois vosotros en mi mano, casa de Israel.

7 En un momento yo puedo hablar contra una nación o contra un reino, de arrancar, de derribar y de destruir;

8 pero si esa nación contra la que he hablado se vuelve de su maldad, me arrepentiré del mal que pensaba traer sobre ella.

9 Y de pronto puedo hablar acerca de una nación o de un reino, de edificar y de plantar;

10 pero si hace lo malo ante mis ojos, no obedeciendo mi voz, entonces me arrepentiré del bien con que había prometido bendecirlo.