Jeremiah 1:6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”^[a]

Footnotes

1.6 Typically, Jeremiah is reluctant to accept an office for which he feels himself ill suited, and which, he foresees, can bring nothing but suffering and disappointment.

Jeremiah 1:6 in all English translations

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