The Almond Branch and Boiling Pot

11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “What do you see, (A)Jeremiah?” And I said, “I see a branch of an [a]almond tree.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for (B)I am [b]watching over My word to perform it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:11 Heb shaqed, see note v 12
  2. Jeremiah 1:12 Heb shoqed, a wordplay on almond in v 11 (see note v 11)

11 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”(A) 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching[a] over my word to perform it.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 In Heb the word for almond resembles the word for watching

11 The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?”(A)

“I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

12 The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[a](B) to see that my word is fulfilled.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:12 The Hebrew for watching sounds like the Hebrew for almond tree.