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Jeremiah 1:3-5
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3 It also came in the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, and continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah, son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the people of Jerusalem were taken into exile in the fifth month of that year.[a]

Jeremiah’s Call and Commission

4 The Lord’s message came to me,

5 “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb[b] I chose you.[c]
Before you were born I set you apart.
I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:3 sn That is, August, 586 b.c.
  2. Jeremiah 1:5 tn Heb “the womb.” The words “your mother’s” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.
  3. Jeremiah 1:5 tn Heb “I knew you.” The parallelism here with “set you apart” and “appointed you” make clear that Jeremiah is speaking of his foreordination to be a prophet. For this same nuance of the Hebrew verb see Gen 18:19; Amos 3:2.
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