Then the Lord put forth His hand and (A)touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me:

“Behold, I have (B)put My words in your mouth.
10 (C)See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To (D)root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”

11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”

And I said, “I see a [a]branch of an almond tree.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:11 Lit. rod

Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched(A) my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.(B) 10 See, today I appoint you over nations(C) and kingdoms to uproot(D) and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”(E)

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

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

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