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

Then the Lord stretched out his hand, and [a]touched my mouth, and the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

10 Behold, this day have I set thee over the [b]nations, and over the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to root out, and to destroy, and throw down, to build, and to plant.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:9 Which declareth that God maketh them meet, and assureth them, whom he calleth to set forth his glory: giving them all means necessary for the same, Exod. 4:12; Isa. 6:7.
  2. Jeremiah 1:10 He showeth what is the authority of God’s true ministers, which by his word have power to bear down whatsoever lifteth itself up against God: and to plant and assure the humble, and such as give themselves to the obedience of God’s word, 2 Cor. 10:4, 5; Heb. 4:12, and these are the keys which Christ hath left to loose, and bind, Matt. 18:18.

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