Jeremiah 1:12
Then said the LORD unto me: 'Thou hast well seen; for I watch over My word to perform it.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:17And the LORD said unto me: 'They have well said that which they have spoken.
Isaiah 55:11So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, except it accomplish that which I please, and make the thing whereto I sent it prosper.
Jeremiah 39:1in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;
Ezekiel 12:22'Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying: The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
Ezekiel 12:28Therefore say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: There shall none of My words be delayed any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, saith the Lord GOD.'
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 1:12-19
Charge Given to Jeremiah. ( b. c. 629.) 11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. 13 And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. 14 Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of… Read the whole commentary →