Jeremiah 18:9
Good News Translation
On the other hand, if I say that I am going to plant or build up any nation or kingdom,

New Revised Standard Version
And at another moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,

Contemporary English Version
If I promise to make a nation strong,

New American Bible
At another moment, I may decree concerning a nation or kingdom that I will build up and plant it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.

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And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.

to build.

Jeremiah 1:10 Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.

Jeremiah 11:17 And the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee: for the evils of the house of Israel, and of the house of Juda, which they have done to themselves, to provoke me, offering sacrifice to Baalim.

Jeremiah 30:18 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring back the captivity of the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city shall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded according to the order thereof.

Jeremiah 31:4,28,38 And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. . . .

Jeremiah 32:41 And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

Amos 9:11-15 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us. . . .

Context
The Potter and the Clay
8If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them. 9And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.10If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:10
Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.

Jeremiah 31:28
And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.

Amos 9:11
All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Jeremiah 18:8
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