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And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to me, You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>The word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to me a second time saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to me, Out of the north the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>; and they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Now behold, I have made you today as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/1-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/jeremiah/1.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah! lo, I have not known -- to speak, for I am a youth.'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/may_the_fifteenth_god_is.htm">May the Fifteenth God is Wide-Awake</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree." --JEREMIAH i. 7-19. And through the almond tree the Lord gave the trembling young prophet the strength of assurance. The almond tree is the first to awake from its wintry sleep. When all other trees are held in frozen slumber the almond blossoms are looking out on the barren world. And God is like that, awake and vigilant. Nobody anticipates Him. Wherever Jeremiah was sent on his prophetic mission the Lord would be there before <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/may_the_fifteenth_god_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_ix_jeremiah_a_lesson.htm">Jeremiah, a Lesson for the Disappointed. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord."--Jeremiah i. 8. The Prophets were ever ungratefully treated by the Israelites, they were resisted, their warnings neglected, their good services forgotten. But there was this difference between the earlier and the later Prophets; the earlier lived and died in honour among their people,--in outward honour; though hated and thwarted by the wicked, they were exalted to high places, and ruled in the congregation. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_ix_jeremiah_a_lesson.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the_principal_works_of_st_jerome/iv_the_writings_of_jerome.htm">The Writings of Jerome. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The following is a list of the writings arranged under various heads, and showing the date of composition and the place held by each in the Edition of Vallarsi, the eleven volumes of which will be found in Migne's Patrologia, vols. xxii. to xxx. The references are to the volumes of Jerome's works (i.-xi.) in that edition. I. Bible translations: (1) From the Hebrew.--The Vulgate of the Old Testament, written at Bethlehem, begun 391, finished 404, vol. ix. (2) From the Septuagint.--The Psalms as used <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the_principal_works_of_st_jerome/iv_the_writings_of_jerome.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Jerome—</span><span class="citation2">The Principal Works of St. Jerome</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_34_jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Among those who had hoped for a permanent spiritual revival as the result of the reformation under Josiah was Jeremiah, called of God to the prophetic office while still a youth, in the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign. A member of the Levitical priesthood, Jeremiah had been trained from childhood for holy service. In those happy years of preparation he little realized that he had been ordained from birth to be "a prophet unto the nations;" and when the divine call came, he was overwhelmed with <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_34_jeremiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cole/trials_and_triumphs_of_faith/chapter_xii_out_of_sectarian.htm">Out of Sectarian Confusion</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I was still a Methodist. The Methodist did not license women to preach; but when the preachers found out that God was using me in the salvation of souls and that I was not especially interested in building up any certain denomination, I had an abundance of calls. God had already begun talking to my brother Jeremiah about the sin of division, and he was beginning to see the evils of sectarianism. The winter after I was healed, he had attended the Jacksonville, Illinois, holiness convention, and had <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cole/trials_and_triumphs_of_faith/chapter_xii_out_of_sectarian.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Mary Cole—</span><span class="citation2">Trials and Triumphs of Faith</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xxxiv_how_those_are.htm">How those are to be Admonished who do not Even Begin Good Things, and those who do not Finish them when Begun. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Admonition 35.) Differently to be admonished are they who do not even begin good things, and those who in no wise complete such as they have begun. For as to those who do not even begin good things, for them the first need is, not to build up what they may wholesomely love, but to demolish that wherein they are wrongly occupied. For they will not follow the untried things they hear of, unless they first come to feel how pernicious are the things that they have tried; since neither does one desire <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xxxiv_how_those_are.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_servants_inflexible_resolve.htm">The Servant's Inflexible Resolve</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'For the Lord God will help Me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set My face like a flint.'--ISAIAH l. 7. What a striking contrast between the tone of these words and of the preceding! There all is gentleness, docility, still communion, submission, patient endurance. Here all is energy and determination, resistance and martial vigour. It is like the contrast between a priest and a warrior. And that gentleness is the parent of this boldness. The same Will which is all submission <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_servants_inflexible_resolve.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gerberding/the_way_of_salvation_in_the_lutheran_church/chapter_v_the_baptismal_covenant.htm">The Baptismal Covenant Can be Kept Unbroken. Aim and Responsibility of Parents. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">We have gone "to the Law and to the Testimony" to find out what the nature and benefits of Baptism are. We have gathered out of the Word all the principal passages bearing on this subject. We have grouped them together, and studied them side by side. We have noticed that their sense is uniform, clear, and strong. Unless we are willing to throw aside all sound principles of interpretation, we can extract from the words of inspiration only one meaning, and that is that the baptized child is, by virtue <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gerberding/the_way_of_salvation_in_the_lutheran_church/chapter_v_the_baptismal_covenant.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. H. Gerberding—</span><span class="citation2">The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_vii_that_sometimes_some.htm">That Sometimes Some Laudably Desire the Office of Preaching, While Others, as Laudably, are Drawn to it by Compulsion. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Although sometimes some laudably desire the office of preaching, yet others are as laudably drawn to it by compulsion; as we plainly perceive, if we consider the conduct of two prophets, one of whom offered himself of his own accord to be sent to preach, yet the other in fear refused to go. For Isaiah, when the Lord asked whom He should send, offered himself of his own accord, saying, Here I am; send me (Isai. vi. 8). But Jeremiah is sent, yet humbly pleads that he should not be sent, saying, Ah, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_vii_that_sometimes_some.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/a_defence_of_the_doctrine.htm">A Defence of the Doctrine of Justification, by Faith in Jesus Christ;</a><br></span><span class="snippet">SHEWING, TRUE GOSPEL-HOLINESS FLOWS FROM THENCE; OR, MR. FOWLER'S PRETENDED DESIGN OF CHRISTIANITY, PROVED TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN TO TRAMPLE UNDER FOOT THE BLOOD OF THE SON OF GOD; AND THE IDOLIZING OF MAN'S OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS AS ALSO, HOW WHILE HE PRETENDS TO BE A MINISTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, HE OVERTHROWETH THE WHOLESOME DOCTRINE CONTAINED IN THE 10TH, 11TH, AND 13TH, OF THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF THE SAME, AND THAT HE FALLETH IN WITH THE QUAKER AND ROMANIST, AGAINST THEM. BY JOHN BUNYAN <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/a_defence_of_the_doctrine.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xlv_circa_a_d_1140.htm">Letter Xlv (Circa A. D. 1140) to the Canons of Lyons, on the Conception of S. Mary. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">To the Canons of Lyons, on the Conception of S. Mary. Bernard states that the Festival of the Conception was new; that it rested on no legitimate foundation; and that it should not have been instituted without consulting the Apostolic See, to whose opinion he submits. 1. It is well known that among all the Churches of France that of Lyons is first in importance, whether we regard the dignity of its See, its praiseworthy regulations, or its honourable zeal for learning. Where was there ever the vigour <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xlv_circa_a_d_1140.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—</span><span class="citation2">Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/1-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 1:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 1:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/1-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 1:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 1:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/jeremiah/1-6.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>