Readings for Lent and Easter

Jeremiah’s Call as a Prophet

⁴ This message from the Lord came to me:

⁶ I replied, “Ah, Lord God! Look, I don’t know how to speak, because I’m only^[a] a young man.”

⁷ Then the Lord told me, “Don’t say, ‘I’m only^[b] a young man,’ for you will go everywhere I send you, and you will speak everything I command you. ⁸ Don’t be afraid of them, because I am with you to deliver you,” declares the Lord.

⁹ The Lord stretched out his hand, touched my mouth, and then told me, “Look, I’ve put my words in your mouth. ¹⁰ See, today I’ve appointed you to prophesy about nations and kingdoms, to pull up and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”