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12 Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.

13 And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and the face of it is [tipped away] from the north [its mouth about to pour forth on the south, on Judea].

14 Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north the evil [which the prophets had foretold as the result of national sin] shall disclose itself and break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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12 The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[a](A) to see that my word is fulfilled.”

13 The word of the Lord came to me again: “What do you see?”(B)

“I see a pot that is boiling,” I answered. “It is tilting toward us from the north.”

14 The Lord said to me, “From the north(C) disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:12 The Hebrew for watching sounds like the Hebrew for almond tree.