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Yahweh also spoke when Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was king of Judah and during the 11 years that Zedekiah, another son of Josiah, was king of Judah. Yahweh continued to speak to Jeremiah until the people of Jerusalem were taken away into captivity in the fifth month of the year.

The Lord Gives Jeremiah a Message for His People

Yahweh spoke his word to me,

“Before I formed you in the womb,
    I knew you.
    Before you were born,
    I set you apart for my holy purpose.
    I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

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