Jeremiah 18:8

“If that nation against whom I have pronounced, etc.] 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…”

“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, &c.), He would not be acting according to His own unchanging principle (Jer 18:9-10). This is applied practically to the Jews' case (Jer 18:11; see Jer 26:3; Jon 3:10).”

“I will repent of the evil ... I will repent of the good - All God’s dealings with mankind are here declared to be conditional. God changeth not, all depends upon man’s conduct. return to 'Top of Page'”

“that nation: Jer 7:3-7, Jer 36:3; Jdg 10:15, Jdg 10:16; Kg1 8:33, Kg1 8:34; Ch2 12:6; Isa 1:16-19; Eze 18:21, Eze 33:11, Eze 33:13; Jon 2:5-10; Luk 13:3-5 I will: Jer 15:6, Jer 26:3, Jer 26:13, Jer 42:10; Exo 32:12; Deu 32:36; Jdg 2:18; Psa 90:13; Psa 106:45, Psa 135:14; Hos 11:8; Joe 2:13, Joe 2:14; Amo 7:3-6; Jon 3:9, Jon 3:10, Jon 4:2 Jeremiah 18:9”