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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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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 1:12
18th Century
Theologian
Hasten — Rather, I watch over my word to perform it.
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 1:12
19th Century
Bishop
I will hasten. —The Hebrew, by using a participle formed from the same root (shôkêd), presents …
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 1:11–14
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 1:11–12
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 1:12
17th Century
Pastor
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 …
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 1:11–19
17th Century
Minister
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…