Jeremiah 1:12
What meaning of the jeremiah 1:12 in the Bible?
What does Jeremiah 1:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it."
What does Jeremiah 1:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it."
Verse Jeremiah 1:12. _I WILL HASTEN MY WORD_] Here is a paronomasia. _What_ _dost thou see_? I see שקד _shaked_, "an almond," the _hastening_ tree: that which first _awakes. Thou hast well seen, for_...
HASTEN - Rather, I watch over “my word to perform it.”...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 1 The Call of the Prophet _ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _ 2. The divin...
THE TWO VISIONS OF JUDGMENT. These form a separate experience, and imply some change of standpoint, since it is now the judgment of Judah through the instrumentality of the nations which is presented...
I WILL HASTEN... IT. I am watching. Forming the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), "an almond tree (_shaked)_... I am watching (_shoked)_ ", thus emphasizing the certainty....
Jeremiah's call The passage will fall into four sections. (i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah 1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful to p...
AND I SAID, I SEE, &C.— The _almond-tree,_ שׁקד _shaked,_ is so called, because this tree, before all others, first _waketh,_ and riseth from its winter-repose. See Numbers 17:8. It flowers in the mon...
II. THE CALL CONFIRMED Jeremiah 1:11-19 TRANSLATION (11) And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, What are you looking at, Jeremiah? And I replied, I am looking at a rod of almond. (12) Then the...
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. HASTEN - rather, 'I will be wakeful [ shoqeed (H8245)] as to my word,' etc.; alluding to Jeremiah 1:11, th...
THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....
I WILL HASTEN. — The Hebrew, by using a participle formed from the same root (_shôkêd_)_,_ PRESENTS A PLAY UPON the name of the “almond,” as the _watcher,_ which it is impossible to reproduce; literal...
וַ יֹּ֧אמֶר יְהוָ֛ה אֵלַ֖י הֵיטַ֣בְתָּ לִ רְאֹ֑ות כִּֽי ־שֹׁקֵ֥ד אֲנִ֛י עַל ־דְּבָרִ֖י לַ עֲשֹׂתֹֽו׃ פ
CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his writin...
COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...
The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...
The Lord was pleased, we find, both by word and by vision, to confirm the Prophet in his new appointment. And the Lord which raised up to the Prophet's mind these images, took care to instruct his min...
God then caused his servant to see the staff of a watcher. For what purpose? The answer is given: _Thou hast rightly seen the staff of a watcher, because I watch over my word to execute _(or, fulfill)...
In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...
THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, THOU HAST WELL SEEN,.... The thing seen is a very proper emblem of what I am about to do, and the quick dispatch that will be made therein: FOR L WILL HASTEN MY WORD TO PE...
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. Ver. 12. _Thou hast well seen._] Heb., Thou hast done well to see, _i.e., _ so to see. _ For I will hasten m...
_Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me_ Probably at the same time, and in the same vision, wherein he was first appointed to his office; _saying, What seest thou_ Here, by symbolical representati...
THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
11-19 God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of judgm...
THOU HAST WELL SEEN; or, Thou hast seen and judged right; or, as the Hebrew, THOU HAST DONE WELL TO SEE, i.e. in seeing so. I WILL HASTEN; word for word, I WILL ALMOND-TREE IT, i.e. I will be upon the...
Jeremiah 1:12 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) seen H7200 (H8800) well H3190 (H8689) ready H8245 (H8802) perform H6213 (H8800) word H1697 Thou hast - Deuteronomy 5:28, Deuteronomy 18:17; Luk
THE SIGN OF THE BRANCH OF THE ALMOND TREE (JEREMIAH 1:11). The first sign was that of the branch of an almond tree, which was an indication and assurance that YHWH would be watching over His word, as...
Jeremiah 1:1 I. (Jeremiah 1:4). The two great blessings of _election_and _mediation_are here distinctly taught. God did not speak to the nations directly, but mediationally. He created a minister who...
Jeremiah 1:1. _The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of J...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod and seething pot. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim. CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowl...
Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...
_I see a rod of an almond tree._ TREE EMBLEMS The Hebrew word for almond signifies the “waker,” in allusion to its being the first tree to wake to life in the winter. The word also contains the sign...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s call and message (vv. Jeremiah 1:4), and the Lord’s promised protecti...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4, _sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the “thirteen...
EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE MATTERS WHICH HE HAS TO ANNOUNCE. JEREMIAH 1:1 There are some indic...
At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah. About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...
Amos 8:2; Deuteronomy 18:17; Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 5:28; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 12:23; Ezekiel 12:25; Ezekiel 12:28; Jeremiah 39:1;...
Well seen — Or thou hast seen and judged right. Hasten — Word for word, I will almond — tree it, that is, I will be upon them speedily, in a short time. My word — My threatening against Judah and its...