Jeremiah 1:4-10

The Word of the Eternal came to me saying,

“Before I fashioned you on the womb I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I sanctified you, I appointed you a prophet to the nations*

Then I said, “Oh, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.

The Eternal said to me, “Do not say,’I am only a boy, for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you will speak everything that I command you. Do not fear them, for I am with you to defend you, says the Eternal.

Then the Eternal stretched out his hand and placed it upon my mouth. And the Eternal said to me, “Behold, I have given my words to your mouth. See, I have this day placed you above the nations and above the kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to tear down, to build and to plant.”

*not to Israel, but to the “foreign” nations

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