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# I am appointing you ... to uproot and break down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant
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Jeremiah would do these things to various nations by saying that they would happen.
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# to uproot and break down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant
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He would uproot, break down, destroy and overthrow some nations, and he would build and plant other nations.
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# to uproot
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God speaks of Jeremiah destroying the nations by what he says as if the nations were plants and he were to pull them up out of the ground. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# to destroy and overthrow
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Jeremiah uses these words, which mean almost the same thing, to show that this will certainly happen. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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# to build and plant
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God speaks of Jeremiah causing nations to become strong as if they were a building and he would build them, and as if they were plants and he would plant them. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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