Jeremiah 18:10-12
New English Translation
10 But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it. 11 So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The Lord says, ‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you.[a] So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing.[b] Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’[c] 12 But they just keep saying, ‘We do not care what you say![d] We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”[e]
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- Jeremiah 18:11 sn Heb “I am forming disaster and making plans against you.” The word translated “forming” is the same as that for “potter,” so there is a wordplay taking the reader back to v. 5. They are in his hands like the clay in the hands of the potter. Since they have not been pliable he forms new plans. He still offers them opportunity to repent, but their response is predictable.
- Jeremiah 18:11 tn Heb “Turn, each one from his wicked way.” See v. 8.
- Jeremiah 18:11 tn Or “Make good your ways and your actions.” See the same expression in 7:3, 5.
- Jeremiah 18:12 tn Heb “It is useless!” See the same expression in a similar context in Jer 2:25.
- Jeremiah 18:12 tn Heb “We will follow our own plans and do each one according to the stubbornness of his own wicked heart.”sn This has been the consistent pattern of their behavior. See 7:24; 9:13; 13:10; 16:12.
Jeremiah 18:10-12
New International Version
10 and if it does evil(A) in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider(B) the good I had intended to do for it.(C)
11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster(D) for you and devising a plan(E) against you. So turn(F) from your evil ways,(G) each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’(H) 12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use.(I) We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.(J)’”
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