Then Moses said, “But look, they will not believe me or listen to my voice. They will say, ‘Adonai has not appeared to you.’”
Jeremiah 1:6 - Tree of Life Version Then I said, “Alas, Adonai Elohim! Look, I don’t know how to speak! For I’m still a boy!” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child. Common English Bible “Ah, LORD God,” I said, “I don’t know how to speak because I’m only a child.” Catholic Public Domain Version 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 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child. |
Then Moses said, “But look, they will not believe me or listen to my voice. They will say, ‘Adonai has not appeared to you.’”
But Moses said to Adonai, “Bnei-Yisrael have not listened to me. So how would Pharaoh listen to me—I, who have uncircumcised lips?”
But Moses said to Adonai, “I am of uncircumcised lips, so how would Pharaoh listen to me?”
Then I said: “Oy to me! For I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am dwelling among a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”
Then I said: “Oh my Lord, Adonai! The prophets keep telling them: ‘You will not see the sword nor famine, but I will give you true peace in this place.’”
“Ah, my Lord Adonai! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm—nothing is too hard for You!
Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke all these words to King Zedekiah of Judah in Jerusalem,
Then I said, “Alas, Adonai Elohim! How completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem saying, ‘You will have shalom,’ until the sword touches the soul!”
Then I said, “Ah, Adonai Elohim ! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up until now have I not eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts. Tainted meat has never come into my mouth.”
I asked, ‘What are these coming to do?’ He answered, ‘These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to frighten them, to cast down the horns of the nations that have lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.’