Jeremiah 1:12

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Then said Yahweh unto me - Thou hast rightly seen, - for keeping watch, am I over my word to perform it.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I watch over my word to accomplish it.”

Hebrew Names Version
Then said the LORD to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.

King James Version
Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

English Standard Version
Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it."

New Century Version
The Lord said to me, "You have seen correctly, because I am watching to make sure my words come true."

Amplified Bible
Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am [actively] watching over My word to fulfill it."

World English Bible
Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then saide the Lorde vnto me, Thou hast seene aright: for I will hasten my worde to performe it.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to do it."

Berean Standard Bible
"You have observed correctly," said the LORD, "for I am watching over My word to accomplish it."

Contemporary English Version
"That's right," the Lord replied, "and I always rise early to keep a promise."

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Adonai said to me, "You have seen well, because I am watching to fulfill my word."

Darby Translation
And Jehovah said unto me, Thou hast well seen; for I am watchful over my word to perform it.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to me, "You have seen very well, and I am watching to make sure that my message to you comes true."

George Lamsa Translation
Then the LORD said to me, You have well seen; for I will hasten my word to perform it.

Good News Translation
"You are right," the Lord said, "and I am watching to see that my words come true."

Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh said to me, "You did well to see, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

Literal Translation
Then Jehovah said to me, You have seen well; for I will watch over My Word to perform it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde ye LORDE: thou hast sene right, for I will watch diligently vpon my worde, to perfourme it.

American Standard Version
Then said Jehovah unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then said the LORD unto me: 'Thou hast well seen; for I watch over My word to perform it.'

King James Version (1611)
Then said the Lord vnto me, Thou hast well seene: for I will hasten my word to performe it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sayde the Lorde vnto me: thou hast seene ryght, for I wyll make haste speedyly vpon my worde to performe it.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my words to perform them.

English Revised Version
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y seide, Y se a yerde wakynge. And the Lord seide to me, Thou hast seen wel, for Y schal wake on my word, to do it.

Update Bible Version
Then Yahweh said to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said the LORD to me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

New English Translation
Then the Lord said, "You have observed correctly. This means I am watching to make sure my threats are carried out."

New King James Version
Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word."

New Living Translation
And the Lord said, "That's right, and it means that I am watching, and I will certainly carry out all my plans."

New Life Bible
Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching to see that My Word is completed."

New Revised Standard
Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch over my word to perform it.

Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto me, `Thou hast well seen: for I am watching over My word to do it.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it."

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Moreover the Word of Yahweh came unto me saying, What canst thou see Jeremiah? And I said, A twig of an almond-tree, can I see. ¹² Then said Yahweh unto me - Thou hast rightly seen, - for keeping watch, am I over my word to perform it. ¹³ And the word of Yahweh came unto me a second time saying, What canst thou see? And I said, A boiling caldron, Can I see, with, the front thereof lion the North. ¹⁴ Then said Yahweh unto me, - Out of the North, shall break forth calamity, against all the inhabitants of the land. ¹⁵ For behold me! calling for all the families of the kingdoms of the North, Declareth Yahweh, - and they shall come, and set every one his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem and against all her walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah! ¹⁶ Then will I pronounce my judgments against them, concerning all their wickedness, - in that they have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods, and have bowed down to the works of their own hands, ¹⁷ Thou, therefore, shalt gird thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them, all that, I, command thee, - be not dismayed because of them, lest I dismay thee before their face. ¹⁸ I, therefore - lo! I have set thee to-day as a fortified city, and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze, over all the land, - against the kings of Judah, against her princes, against her priests and against the people of the land. ¹⁹ And they will fight against thee but shall not prevail against thee, - for with thee, am I, Declareth Yahweh, to deliver thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou hast: Deuteronomy 5:28, Deuteronomy 18:17, Luke 10:28, Luke 20:39

I will: Jeremiah 39:1-18, Jeremiah 52:1-34, Deuteronomy 32:35, Ezekiel 12:22, Ezekiel 12:23, Ezekiel 12:25, Ezekiel 12:28, Amos 8:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:33 - like unto Jeremiah 48:16 - near Lamentations 4:18 - our end is near Ezekiel 11:3 - It is not John 13:13 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
And God called, the dry-ground, land, but the gathering together of the waters, called he seas. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11
And God said - Let the land put-forth vegetation-herb yielding seed, fruit-tree, bearing fruit, after its kind, whose seed is within it on the land. And it was so,

Genesis 1:24
And God said - Let the land, bring forth, living soul, after its kind, tame-beast and creeping thing and wild-beast, of the land, after its kind. And it was so.

Genesis 1:26
And God said - Let us make man in our image after our likeness - and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the bird of the heavens and over the tame-beast - and over all the land, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth on the land.

Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth, bringeth forth her bud, And as, a garden, causeth her seeds, to shoot forth, So, My Lord, Yahweh, will cause to shoot forth Righteousness and praise before all the nations.

Mark 4:28
of itself, the earth beareth fruit, - first, a blade, afterwards, an ear, after that, full corn in the ear;

Luke 6:44
For, every tree, by its own fruit, becometh known. For not, of thorns, do they gather figs, neither, of a bramble-bush, do they gather, a bunch of grapes.

2 Corinthians 9:10
Now, he that supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for eating, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and cause to grow your fruits of righteousness:

Galatians 6:7
Be not deceiving yourselves! God, is not to be mocked; for, whatsoever a man soweth, the same, shall he also reap, -

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 perform it; the words שקד אני, "shoked ani", "I will hasten", or "I am hastening", are in allusion to

שקד, "shoked", the name of the almond tree in Hebrew; which is so called because it is quick and early, and, as it were, hastens to bring forth its flowers, leaves, and fruit; in like manner the Lord says he would hasten to perform what he had said or should say by him concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, and the captivity of the people, and every thing else he should give him in commission to say. Jarchi and Abendana make mention of an ancient Midrash, or exposition, to this sense; that from the time of the almond tree's putting forth, until its fruit is ripe, are one and twenty days, according to the number of days which were between the seventeenth of Tammuz, in which the city was broken up, and the ninth of Ab, in which the temple was burnt; but though the almond tree is the first of trees, and is very early in putting forth, yet there is a greater time than this between its putting forth and its fruit being ripe; for Pliny s says, that the almond tree first of all flowers in January, and its fruit is ripe in March.

s Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hasten - Rather, I watch over “my word to perform it.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 (שקד shoked) I will hasten my word. I will awake, or watch over my word for the first opportunity to inflict the judgments which I threaten. The judgment shall come speedily; it shall soon flourish, and come to maturity.