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Jeremiah 1:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

I have set thee; literally, I have made thee an overseer, or vicegerent (comp. Genesis 41:34; 9:28, where the Authorized Version renders the cognate noun "officer"). To root out … to plant, viz. by pronouncing that Divine judgment which fulfils itself (comp.

Jeremiah 5:14; Numbers 23:25; Isaiah 9:8, Isaiah 9:9; Isaiah 55:11). As there is so much more threatening than promise in Jeremiah's writings, the destructive side of his activity is expressed by four verbs, the constructive only by two.

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