God Speaks Today - Jeff Hawker

⁴Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

⁶Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

⁷But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you. ⁸Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

⁹Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. ¹⁰Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

¹¹Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

¹²Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

¹³Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a boiling cauldron; and it is tipping away from the north.”

¹⁴Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.