Jeremiah 1:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am only a youth. [Exod. 4:10; 6:12, 30; I Kings 3:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.

Common English Bible

“Ah, LORD God,” I said, “I don’t know how to speak because I’m only a child.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I said: "Alas, alas, alas, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am a boy."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.

Jeremiah 1:6 Cross References

Exodus 4:1

And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

Exodus 6:12

And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

Exodus 6:30

And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

Isaiah 6:5

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 14:13

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

Jeremiah 32:17

Ah Lord GOD behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and by thy stretched out arm; there is nothing too hard for thee:

Jeremiah 34:6

Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 4:10

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth;

Zechariah 2:4

and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein.