Jeremiah 1:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But you [Jeremiah], gird up your loins! Arise and tell them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed and break down at the sight of their faces, lest I confound you before them and permit you to be overcome.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But you must prepare for battle and be ready to utter every word I command you. Don’t be frightened before them, or I will frighten you before them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Therefore, you should gird your waist, and rise up, and speak to them everything that I instruct you. You should not have dread before their face. For I will cause you to be unafraid of their countenance.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee not to fear their countenance.

Jeremiah 1:17 Cross References

1 Kings 18:46

And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

2 Kings 1:15

Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king,

2 Kings 4:29

He said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet any one, do not salute him; and if any one salutes you, do not reply; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.”

2 Kings 9:1

Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

Job 38:3

Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

Exodus 3:12

He said, “But I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain.”

Exodus 7:2

You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.

Jeremiah 1:18

And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil; destroy them with double destruction!

Jeremiah 23:28

Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:12

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

Jeremiah 26:2

“Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.

Jeremiah 36:8

And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

Lamentations 3:57

Thou didst come near when I called on thee; thou didst say, ‘Do not fear!’

Jonah 3:2

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

Luke 12:35

“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,

Acts 20:20

how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

Acts 20:27

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

1 Thessalonians 2:2

but though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore gird up your minds, be sober, set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.