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12 And the Lord replied, “That’s right, and it means that I will surely carry out my threats of punishment.”[a]

13 Then the Lord asked me, “What do you see now?”

And I replied, “I see a pot of boiling water, tipping southward, spilling over Judah.”[b]

14 “Yes,” he said, “for terror from the north will boil out upon all the people of this land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:12 I will surely carry out my threats of punishment. There is a wordplay here between shaqedh (almond) in v. 11 and shoqedh (watching) in v. 12: “For I am watching over my word to perform it.”
  2. Jeremiah 1:13 spilling over Judah, implied.

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

13 The word of the Lord came to me again: “What do you see?”(B)

“I see a pot that is boiling,” I answered. “It is tilting toward us from the north.”

14 The Lord said to me, “From the north(C) disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.

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Footnotes

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