Jeremías 1:13

13 Por segunda vez vino a mí la palabra del SEÑOR, diciendo: ¿Qué ves tú? Y respondí: Veo una olla hirviendo que se vuelca desde el norte.

Jeremías 1:13 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 1:13

And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time
In the same vision: saying, what seest thou?
besides the almond tree rod; which perhaps was now removed out of sight, and another object appears: and I said, I see a seething pot;
a pot with fire under it, boiling and bubbling up: and the face thereof was towards the north;
either the mouth of the pot where it boiled up, which might be turned to the north in the vision; or that side of the pot, as Kimchi thinks, on which the liquor was poured out; it may be that side of it on which the fire was put to cause it to boil; and so denotes from what quarter the fire came, and was put under it, and the wind that blew it up. The Targum paraphrases the words thus,

``and I said, I see a king boiling as a pot, and the banner of his army, which was brought and came from the north.''
The explanation follows:

Jeremías 1:13 In-Context

11 Vino entonces a mí la palabra del SEÑOR, diciendo: ¿Qué ves tú, Jeremías? Y yo respondí: Veo una vara de almendro.
12 Y me dijo el SEÑOR: Bien has visto, porque yo velo sobre mi palabra para cumplirla.
13 Por segunda vez vino a mí la palabra del SEÑOR, diciendo: ¿Qué ves tú? Y respondí: Veo una olla hirviendo que se vuelca desde el norte.
14 Y me dijo el SEÑOR: Desde el norte irrumpirá el mal sobre todos los habitantes de esta tierra.
15 Porque he aquí, llamo a todas las familias de los reinos del norte declara el SEÑOR y vendrán y cada uno pondrá su trono a la entrada de las puertas de Jerusalén, frente a todos sus muros alrededor y frente a todas las ciudades de Judá.
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