Jeremiah 1:4–5
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Jeremiah’s Call and Commission
1:4The Lord said to me,
1:5“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb7 I chose you.8
Before you were born I set you apart.
I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
Footnotes
- 7 Heb “the womb.” The words “your mother’s” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.
- 8 Heb “I knew you.” The parallelism here with “set you apart” and “appointed you” make clear that Jeremiah is speaking of his foreordination to be a prophet. For this same nuance of the Hebrew verb see Gen 18:19; Amos 3:2.
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In other versions
ESVEnglish Standard Version
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
The word of the Lord came to me:
I chose you before I formed you in the womb;
I set you apart before you were born.
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
NLTNew Living Translation
The Lord gave me this message:
“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
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KJV 1900King James Version
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 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.
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