Footnote

d The prophecy is worded like Jeremiah 1:9, 10 (AS) where God declares Jeremiah to be set over the nations and kingdoms, “to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” Not that Jeremiah was himself actually to do such things to the nations and kingdoms, but he was to utter prophecies that these things would happen to them. It is worded also as when Ezekiel 43:3 says, “I came to destroy the city.” Not that Ezekiel himself destroyed Jerusalem, but that he came to foretell the destruction.