Jeremiah 1:13
Good News Translation
Then the LORD spoke to me again. "What else do you see?" he asked. I answered, "I see a pot boiling in the north, and it is about to tip over this way."

New Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, tilted away from the north.”

Contemporary English Version
Then the LORD showed me something else and asked, "What do you see now?" I answered, "I see a pot of boiling water in the north, and it's about to spill out toward us."

New American Bible
A second time the word of the LORD came to me: What do you see? I replied, “I see a boiling kettle whose mouth is tipped away from the north.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What seest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What seest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.

the second time

Genesis 41:32 And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.

2 Corinthians 13:1,2 Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand. . . .

I see

Ezekiel 11:3,7 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh. . . .

Ezekiel 24:3-14 And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it. . . .

toward the north.

Context
The Call of Jeremiah
12And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch over my word to perform it. 13And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What seest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.14And the Lord said to me: From the north shall an evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 24:3
And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten because they are bad.

Ezekiel 11:3
Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

Ezekiel 11:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, all this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 24:3
And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water in it.

Zechariah 4:2
And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that were upon the top thereof.

Jeremiah 1:12
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