Jeremiah 1:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,“I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 4:11-12 : 11 The LORD said to him,“Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”
  • Ezek 3:10 : 10 And he said to me,“Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.
  • Matt 10:19 : 19 Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.
  • Luke 12:12 : 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”
  • Exod 4:15-16 : 15 “So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do. 16 He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.
  • Isa 51:16 : 16 Zion’s Time to Celebrate I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion,‘You are my people.’”
  • Jer 5:14 : 14 Because of that, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, said to me,“Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 The Servant Perseveres The Sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.
  • Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
  • Isa 49:2 : 2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.
  • Isa 6:6-7 : 6 But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said,“Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.”

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    16Zion’s Time to Celebrate I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion,‘You are my people.’”

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    4Jeremiah’s Call and Commission The LORD’s message came to me,

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    6I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

    7The LORD said to me,“Do not say,‘I am too young.’ But go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.

    8Do not be afraid of those to whom I send you, for I will be with you to protect you,” says the LORD.

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    10Know for certain that I hereby give you the authority to announce to nations and kingdoms that they will be uprooted and torn down, destroyed and demolished, rebuilt and firmly planted.”

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    12So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”

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    22Now the hand of the LORD had been on me the evening before the refugee reached me, but the LORD opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak.

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    14Because of that, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, said to me,“Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”

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    2He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.

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    9Then I looked and realized a hand was stretched out to me, and in it was a written scroll.

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