Jeremiah 1:9-11

New International Version - UK

⁹ Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, ‘I have put my words in your mouth. ¹⁰ See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.’

¹¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ‘What do you see, Jeremiah?’

‘I see the branch of an almond tree,’ I replied.