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“Ah, Lord God!” I said,
    “I do not know how to speak. I am too young!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 I am too young: like Moses (Ex 3:11, 13; 4:10), Jeremiah at first resists God’s call. This narrative is perhaps patterned after the story of Moses’ call in order to identify Jeremiah as the prophet “like me” in Dt 18:15.