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Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.
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The 'Watching' Tree
Multiple commentators explain a clever wordplay in the original Hebrew. The word for “almond tree” (shaqed) is nearly identical to the word for “watching” (shoqed). The almond tree was known for blooming very early, as if it were “watching” for spring. God uses this visual pun to assure Jeremiah that He, too, is vigilantly “watching” over His word to bring it to pass.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Hasten — Rather, I watch over my word to perform it.
19th Century
Anglican
I will hasten. —The Hebrew, by using a participle formed from the same root (shôkêd), presents …
Baptist
The Chaldeans and the Babylonians were like a great cauldron, boiling and seething, sending forth smoke and steam over the nations, and ready to sc…
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16th Century
Protestant
God confirms in this passage what He had previously said of the power of His word. These two verses, then, are to be taken as explanatory, for no n…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said the Lord unto me, you have well seen The thing seen is a very proper emblem of what I am about to do, and …
God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond tree, which blooms earlier in the spring than any o…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, the prophet identifies the subject matter he was specifically appointed to prophesy about: the destruction of Jerusalem and the cap…
