Jeremiah 1:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Exodus 4:1

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

Exodus 6:12

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

Exodus 6:30

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

Isaiah 6:5

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.”

Jeremiah 14:13

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.”

Jeremiah 32:17

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

Jeremiah 34:6

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

Jeremiah 4:10

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?”

Ezekiel 4:14

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.”

Zechariah 2:4

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.