Jeremiah’s Call and First Visions

⁴ The Lord gave me this message:

A Watchman for Israel

¹⁶ After seven days the Lord gave me a message. He said,

³ (The Lord gave this message to Ezekiel son of Buzi, a priest, beside the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians,^[a] and he felt the hand of the Lord take hold of him.)

² The Lord first gave messages to Jeremiah during the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.^[a]