Jeremiah 1:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms,
to pluck up and to pull down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.’

¹¹The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Jeremiah, what do you see?’ And I said, ‘I see a branch of an almond tree.’^[a] ¹²Then the Lord said to me, ‘You have seen well, for I am watching^[b] over my word to perform it.’

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Jeremiah 1:11 Heb shaqed
Jeremiah 1:12 Heb shoqed

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

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