John Trapp on Jeremiah 1:11

Ver. 11. Jeremiah, what ſeest thou?] It was great kindneſs and familiarity thus to parle with him, and to call him by his name.

And I ſaid, I ſee a rod of an Almond tree] Which hath its name in Hebrew from watching, becauſe it watcheth as it were to bud and bear before other trees, even in the deep of winter, and when it is at coldeſt. Hereby, the Prophet is animated though but young; and aſſured that he ſhall have the fruit of his ſo early labours. God careth not for thoſe arbores autumnales, Jude 13. trees which bud not till the latter end of harveſt. The truth of all his predictions is deſigned, though little beleeved by the moſt: the ſpeedineſs alſo of their performance, as ver. 12. and Ezek. 7.10, 11. a good Comment upon this text. The ſins of Gods people, ſaith one, are ſooner ripe then of the heathens, becauſe they have the conſtant light and heat of his Word to haſten their maturity. This was typified by the basket of Summer fruits, and by the Almond-tree in this text. As the Almond-tree,Hieron. Theod. Juſt. Mart. ſaith another, hath a bitter rind but a ſweet kernel, ſo hath affliction ſanctified: and again, as the Almond-tree is made more fruitful by driving nailes into it, letting out a noxious gum that hindereth the fruitfulneſs thereof: ſo is a good man made better by afflictions.