⁵ “Before I created you in the womb I knew you;
    before you were born I set you apart;
    I made you a prophet to the nations.”
⁶ “Ah, Lord God,” I said, “I don’t know how to speak
    because I’m only a child.”
⁷ The Lord responded,
    “Don’t say, ‘I’m only a child.’
        Where I send you, you must go;
        what I tell you, you must say.
⁸ Don’t be afraid of them,
    because I’m with you to rescue you,”
        declares the Lord.
⁹ Then the Lord stretched out his hand,
    touched my mouth, and said to me,
    “I’m putting my words in your mouth.
¹⁰ This very day I appoint you over nations and empires,
    to dig up and pull down,
    to destroy and demolish,
    to build and plant.”

7 I take refuge in you, Lord, my God.
    Save me from all who chase me!
    Rescue me!
² Otherwise, they will rip me apart,
    dragging me off with no chance of rescue.
³ Lord, my God, if I have done this—
        if my hands have done anything wrong,
⁴         if I have repaid a friend with evil
        or oppressed a foe for no reason—
⁵     then let my enemy
        not only chase but catch me,
        trampling my life into the ground,
        laying my reputation in the dirt. Selah
⁶ Get up, Lord; get angry!
    Stand up against the fury of my foes!
Wake up, my God;^[b]
    you command that justice be done!