Jeremiah 1:9-11

Modern English Version

⁹ Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Now, I have put My words in your mouth. ¹⁰ See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.”

The Almond Rod and Boiling Pot

¹¹ Moreover 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.”