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Jeremiah 1:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

I replied, “I'm not a good speaker, Lord, and I'm too young.”

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But Moses replied, “I'm not a powerful speaker. If the Israelites won't listen to me, why should the king of Egypt?”

Lord God, you stretched out your mighty arm and made the sky and the earth. You can do anything.

But Moses answered, “You know I am a very poor speaker, and the king will never listen to me.”

I replied, “The other prophets keep telling everyone that you won't send starvation or war, and that you're going to give us peace.”

Moses asked the Lord, “Suppose everyone refuses to listen to my message, and no one believes that you really appeared to me?”

I said, “You are the Lord God. So why have you fooled everyone, especially the people of Jerusalem? Why did you promise peace, when a knife is at our throats?”

Then I cried out, “I'm doomed! Everything I say is sinful, and so are the words of everyone around me. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

I said, “Lord God, please don't make me do that! Never in my life have I eaten food that would make me unacceptable to you. I've never eaten anything that died a natural death or was killed by a wild animal or that you said was unclean.”

and said, “Hurry! Tell that man with the measuring line that Jerusalem won't have any boundaries. It will be too full of people and animals even to have a wall.

I went to Zedekiah and told him what the Lord had said.




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