Jeremiah 1:12
Good News Translation
"You are right," the LORD said, "and I am watching to see that my words come true."

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

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

New American Bible
Then the LORD said to me: You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to carry it out.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

thou hast

Deuteronomy 5:28 And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have spoken all things well.

Deuteronomy 18:17 And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.

Luke 10:28 And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live.

Luke 20:39 And some of the scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well.

I will

Jeremiah 39:1 In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

Jeremiah 52:1 Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremiah of Lobna.

Deuteronomy 32:35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

Ezekiel 12:22,23,25,28 Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall fail. . . .

Amos 8:2 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down the fruit.

Context
The Call of Jeremiah
11And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: I see a rod watching. 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.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:28
And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:13
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.

Jeremiah 1:11
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