Jeremiah 1:5
Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
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In Context
4Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
6Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.
Cross References
Exodus 33:12And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.
Psalms 71:5For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.
Psalms 139:16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
Isaiah 49:1Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:
Jeremiah 1:10See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
Jeremiah 25:13And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 1:5-11
Jeremiah's Call to the Prophetic Office. ( b. c. 629.) 4 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 7 But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their faces:… Read the whole commentary →