““Before I form you in the belly, I have known you; and before you come forth from the womb I have separated you; I have made you a prophet to the nations.””— Jeremiah 1:5 (LSV)
2to whom the word of YHWH has been in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,
3and it is in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the completion of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the expulsion of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
4And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
5“Before I form you in the belly, I have known you; and before you come forth from the womb I have separated you; I have made you a prophet to the nations.”
6And I say, “Aah! Lord YHWH! Behold, I have not known—to speak, for I [am] a youth.”
7And YHWH says to me, “Do not say, I [am] a youth, for to all to whom I send you—go, and all that I command you—speak.
8Do not be afraid of their faces, for I [am] with you to deliver you,” a declaration of YHWH.