Yēlìmǐshū 18:8

8 Wǒ suǒ shuō de nà yī bāng , ruò shì zhuǎn yì líkāi tāmende è , wǒ jiù bì hòuhuǐ , bù jiāng wǒ xiǎng yào shīxíng de zāihuò jiàng yǔ tāmen .

Yēlìmǐshū 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.

Yēlìmǐshū 18:8 In-Context

6 Yēhéhuá shuō , Yǐsèliè jiā a , wǒ dāi nǐmen , qǐbù néng zhào zhè yáo jiàng lòng ní ma . Yǐsèliè jiā a , ní zaì yáo jiàng de shǒu zhōng zĕnyàng , nǐmen zaì wǒde shǒu zhōng yĕ zĕnyàng .

7 Wǒ hé shí lún dào yī bāng huò yī guó shuō , yào bá chū , chāihuǐ , huǐhuaì .

8 Wǒ suǒ shuō de nà yī bāng , ruò shì zhuǎn yì líkāi tāmende è , wǒ jiù bì hòuhuǐ , bù jiāng wǒ xiǎng yào shīxíng de zāihuò jiàng yǔ tāmen .

9 Wǒ hé shí lún dào yī bāng huò yī guó shuō , yào jiànlì , zāi zhí .

10 Tāmen ruò xíng wǒ yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , bú tīng cóng wǒde huà , wǒ jiù bì hòuhuǐ , bú jiāng wǒ suǒ shuō de fúqi cìgĕi tāmen .