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“I knew you before I formed you in the womb;
    I set you apart for me before you were born;
        I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

I replied, “Ah, Lord God! Look, I don’t know how to speak, because I’m only[a] a young man.”

Then the Lord told me, “Don’t say, ‘I’m only[b] a young man,’ for you will go everywhere I send you, and you will speak everything I command you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:6 The Heb. lacks only
  2. Jeremiah 1:7 The Heb. lacks only