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10 See, 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.’

11 The 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] 12 Then the Lord said to me, ‘You have seen well, for I am watching[b] over my word to perform it.’

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  1. Jeremiah 1:11 Heb shaqed
  2. Jeremiah 1:12 Heb shoqed

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