Jeremiah 1:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

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