Jeremiah 1:9

New English Translation

Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.

Cross References

Isaiah 49:2

He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.

Isaiah 50:4

The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

Isaiah 51:16

I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

Isaiah 59:21

“As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 15:19

Because of this, the Lord said, “You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them.

Jeremiah 34:6

The prophet Jeremiah told all this to King Zedekiah of Judah in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:2

“Get a scroll. Write on it everything I have told you to say about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now.

Jeremiah 5:14

Because of that, the Lord, the God who rules over all, said to me, “Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”

Ezekiel 3:10

And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.

Daniel 10:10

Then a hand touched me and set me on my hands and knees.

Daniel 10:16

Then one who appeared to be a human being was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.

Numbers 23:5

Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

Matthew 10:19

Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.

Mark 7:33

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

Luke 12:12

for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”

Luke 21:15

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

Deuteronomy 18:16

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

Deuteronomy 18:17

The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.