You don't need to down grade. You can run more than one version of Java on MacOS. You can set the version of your terminal with this command in MacOS.
# List Java versions installed
/usr/libexec/java_home -V
# Java 11
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 11)
# Java 1.8
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)
# Java 1.7
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7)
# Java 1.6
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6)
You can set the default value in the .bashrc, .profile, or .zprofile