Jeremiah 18:11

JUDAH'S PLACE IN THE ANALOGY

"Now therefore speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings."

This verse confirms absolutely the paragraph we have just written above it.

"I frame evil against you ... devise a device against you ..." (Jeremiah 18:11). Henderson rendered this, "I am meditating a calamity against you, and forming a plan against you."[10] This shows that the status of God's Israel at this time was that of a nation which God had purposed to "pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy."[11] This accounts for the accompanying demand that Israel repent and turn from their wickedness. It is still not too late for them to avert the wrath of God, but the time is growing short indeed.