Jeremiah 1:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I said, I see a seething-pot— A pot that sendeth forth steam. The steam of a boiling-pot very properly represents the judgments of the Almighty, which are often compared to a fire, as the afflictions of the Israelites are to a smoking furnace. The latter part of the verse should be rendered, And the face thereof is turned from the north: that is to say, the steam of it was represented to the prophet is coming from the north; so that the pot or cauldron itself may denote Judea, set on fire, and consumed by an army of Chaldeans, whose country lay to the north of Palestine. See Ezekiel 11:7 and Calmet.