Jeremiah 1:11
Good News Translation
The LORD asked me, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" I answered, "A branch of an almond tree."

New Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD showed me something in a vision. Then he asked, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I answered, "A branch of almonds that ripen early."

New American Bible
The word of the LORD came to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? “I see a branch of the almond tree,” I replied.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: I see a rod watching.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: I see a rod watching.

what seest thou

Amos 7:8 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

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

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.

Zechariah 5:2 And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I see a volume flying: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

I see a rod

Numbers 17:8 He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.

Ezekiel 7:10 Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

Context
The Call of Jeremiah
10Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant. 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:37
And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of plane-trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off, in the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts that were whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was divers.

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.

Amos 7:8
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

Jeremiah 1:10
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