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10 Today I appoint you to stand up
    against nations and kingdoms.
Some you must uproot and tear down,
    destroy and overthrow.
Others you must build up
    and plant.”

11 Then the Lord said to me, “Look, Jeremiah! What do you see?”

And I replied, “I see a branch from an almond tree.”

12 And the Lord said, “That’s right, and it means that I am watching,[a] and I will certainly carry out all my plans.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:12 The Hebrew word for “watching” (shoqed) sounds like the word for “almond tree” (shaqed).

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