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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 18:8 - 18:8
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their evil - in antithesis to, “the evil that I thought to do.”
repent - God herein adapts Himself to human conceptions. The change is not in God, but in the circumstances which regulate God’s dealings: just as we say the land recedes from us when we sail forth, whereas it is we who recede from the land (Eze 18:21; Eze 33:11). God’s unchangeable principle is to do the best that can be done under all circumstances; if then He did not take into account the moral change in His people (their prayers, etc.), He would not be acting according to His own unchanging principle (Jer 18:9, Jer 18:10). This is applied practically to the Jews’ case (Jer 18:11; see Jer 26:3; Jon 3:10).