09 August 2009

A text for today

A text to contemplate this Sunday is the 18th chapter of the book of Jeremiah, in which God explains that there is no inevitability in history -- what He has foretold, He can change His mind on.

In the King James Version, the crucial verses of that chapter read thus:


7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

8 if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

10 if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
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