Font Size
Jeremiah 1:12-14
1599 Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 1:12-14
1599 Geneva Bible
12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast seen aright: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
13 Again the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething [a]pot looking out of the North.
14 Then said the Lord unto me, Out of the [b]North shall a plague be spread upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Jeremiah 1:13 Signifying, that the Chaldeans and Assyrians should be as a pot to seethe the Jews which boiled in their pleasures and lust.
- Jeremiah 1:14 Syria and Assyria were Northward in respect of Jerusalem, which were the Chaldeans’ dominion.
Jeremiah 1:12-14
New International Version
Jeremiah 1:12-14
New International Version
12 The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[a](A) to see that my word is fulfilled.”
13 The word of the Lord came to me again: “What do you see?”(B)
“I see a pot that is boiling,” I answered. “It is tilting toward us from the north.”
14 The Lord said to me, “From the north(C) disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 1:12 The Hebrew for watching sounds like the Hebrew for almond tree.
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) 
Geneva Bible, 1599 Edition. Published by Tolle Lege Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations in articles, reviews, and broadcasts.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.