Jeremiah 1:6-10

New King James Version

⁶Then said I:

^(A)“Ah, Lord God!
Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”

⁷But the Lord said to me:

“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
And ^(B)whatever I command you, you shall speak.
⁸^(C)Do not be afraid of their faces,
For ^(D)I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord.

⁹Then the Lord put forth His hand and ^(E)touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me:

“Behold, I have ^(F)put My words in your mouth.
¹⁰^(G)See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To ^(H)root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”

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Jeremiah 26:8-15

New King James Version

⁸Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die! ⁹Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be ^(A)desolate, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

¹⁰When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house. ¹¹And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and all the people, saying, ^[a]“This man deserves to ^(B)die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

¹²Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying: “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words that you have heard. ¹³Now therefore, ^(C)amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will relent concerning the doom that He has pronounced against you. ¹⁴As for me, here ^(D)I am, in your hand; do with me as seems good and ^[b]proper to you. ¹⁵But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”