Moreover 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.”
Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”
(Jeremiah 1:11-12)
God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
(Romans 4:17b)