Then said I, [a]Oh, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.

But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee, shalt thou speak.

Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:6 Considering the great judgments of God, which according to his threatening should come upon the world, he was moved with a certain compassion on the one side to pity them that should thus perish, and on the other side by the infirmity of man’s nature, knowing how hard a thing it was to enterprise such a charge, as Isa. 6:11; Exod. 3:21 and 4:1.

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