Jeremiah 1:12-14

Contemporary English Version

¹²“That's right,” the Lord replied, “and I always rise early^[a] to keep a promise.”

¹³Then the Lord showed me something else and asked, “What do you see now?”

I answered, “I see a pot of boiling water in the north, and it's about to spill out toward us.”

¹⁴The Lord said:

I will pour out destruction
all over the land.

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Footnotes

1.11,12 almonds … rise early: In Hebrew “almonds that ripen early” sounds like “always rise early.”

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