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10 and I am sending you with authority to speak to the nations for me. You will tell them of doom and destruction, and of rising and rebuilding again.”

11 The Lord showed me something in a vision. Then he asked, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

I answered, “A branch of almonds that ripen early.”

12 “That's right,” the Lord replied, “and I always rise early[a] to keep a promise.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1.11,12 almonds … rise early: In Hebrew “almonds that ripen early” sounds like “always rise early.”

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