Jeremiah 1:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ 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)

⁶ Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.

Common English Bible

⁶ “Ah, LORD God,” I said, “I don’t know how to speak because I’m only a child.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

Then Moses answered, “But look, they may not believe me or listen to me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’ ”

Exodus 6:12

But Moses spoke to the Lord, “The Israelites have not listened to me; why should Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?”

Exodus 6:30

But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I am a poor speaker, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jeremiah 14:13

Then I said: “Ah, Lord God! Here are the prophets saying to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you true peace in this place.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:17

“Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Jeremiah 34:6

Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God, how utterly you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ even while the sword is at the throat!”

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him, “Run, say to that young man: Jerusalem shall be inhabited like unwalled villages because of the multitude of people and animals in it.