What Does Jeremiah 1:12 Mean in the King James?
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word is not left waiting after it is spoken; it remains under God’s watch until it becomes action.
THE MEANING
God’s word remains in active attention until it is carried out. What you see is already held within that watchfulness, with its doing bound up in its speaking.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A promise is not a sound that fades once spoken or a future left to chance; it is held in attention until it is done.
THE ROOT
שֹׁקֵד
shoqed
GROWS FROM
שקד
sh-q-d
To stay awake, be alert, or watch attentively.
The Hebrew word rendered “hasten” is shoqed, from שקד (sh-q-d), meaning to stay awake or watch attentively. The almond image just before this verse gives that watchfulness a visible form: the word is held in alert attention until it is done.
ALSO GROWS
shaqed: Almond.
שָׁקֵד
The almond tree in the preceding verse echoes shoqed, joining the visible image to the act of watching.
shaqad: To watch attentively or stay awake.
שָׁקַד
This branch names the watchfulness carried by the word in this verse.
THE PATTERN
A word spoken by God remains directed toward completion until it takes form in action.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.THE THREAD
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.The Hebrew for “almond tree,” shaqed (שָׁקֵד), shares the root שקד (sh-q-d) with shoqed (שֹׁקֵד), the word rendered “hasten” in the next verse. The almond image opens into a picture of watchfulness: God watches over the word until it is done.
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