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12 The Lord said to me, “You have seen very well, and I am watching[a] to make sure that my message to you comes true.”

13 The Lord’s message came to me again: “Jeremiah, what do you see?”

I answered, “I see a pot of boiling water. That pot is tipping over from the north.”

14 The Lord said to me, “Something terrible will come from the north.
    It will happen to all the people who live in this country.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:12 watching This is a wordplay. Shaqed is the Hebrew word for “almond wood,” and shoqed means “watching.”

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