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Jeremiah 1:4-5
New English Translation
Jeremiah 1:4-5
New English Translation
Jeremiah’s Call and Commission
4 The Lord’s message came to me,
5 “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb[a] I chose you.[b]
Before you were born I set you apart.
I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 1:5 tn Heb “the womb.” The words “your mother’s” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Jeremiah 1:5 tn Heb “I knew you.” The parallelism here with “set you apart” and “appointed you” make clear that Jeremiah is speaking of his foreordination to be a prophet. For this same nuance of the Hebrew verb see Gen 18:19; Amos 3:2.
Jeremiah 1:4-5
New International Version
Jeremiah 1:4-5
New International Version
The Call of Jeremiah
4 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 1:5 Or chose
Jeremiah 1:4-5
King James Version
Jeremiah 1:4-5
King James Version
4 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
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