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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Jeremiah 1:12

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 them speedily, in a short time, and suddenly, ere they are aware; or, I will watch, and be ready to accomplish this in due time. My word, i.e. my word of threatening against Judah and its inhabitants.

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See also Jeremiah 1:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The symbol of the almond tree It is often supposed that the almond tree and the boiling caldron were seen by the prophet in vision. But it is quite possible that it was an actual almond tree to which...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In 2 Chronicles 6:41-42 the words of the Psalm are quoted at the close of Solomon's prayer at the Dedication of the Temple, and some commentators suppose that in Psalms 132:8 ff. the Psalmist carries...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I watch over_ The Hebrew word recurs in Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 44:27. Here the sense is, The Lord is rousing Himself. The period of trial is rapidly approaching its end, and the punis...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Since the days of Manasseh the Lord had not visited upon the people their sins. That period of rest was like the winter. The Lord is now rousing Himself; yet not only to punish, but to save as well. T...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֧אמֶר יְהוָ֛ה אֵלַ֖י הֵיטַ֣בְתָּ לִ רְא

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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)...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 PE...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 my...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen; for I will hasten My word to perform it, literally, "wakeful (or intent) shall I, on My part, be with regard to My words to do them," the allusion to t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 judg...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 1:12 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) seen H7200 (H8800) well H3190 (H8689) ready H8245 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH GIVES JEREMIAH TWO SIGNS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE CERTAINTY OF YHWH'S WATCHFULNESS OVER HIS PURPOSES, AND THE SECOND A SIGN WHICH DEMONSTRATED THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE TO COME FROM THE NORTH BECAUSE...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 Ju...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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 foreknowle...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 signi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 8:2; Deuteronomy 18:17; Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 5:28;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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