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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.”[a] But Yahweh said to me, “You must not say, ‘I am a youth,’[b] for to whomever[c] I send you, you will go, and whatever[d] I command you, you will speak.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:6 Or “boy”
  2. Jeremiah 1:7 Or “boy”
  3. Jeremiah 1:7 Literally “all of whom”
  4. Jeremiah 1:7 Literally “all of that”