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But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

1:9 my words. Jeremiah thus makes the explicit claim that his words were verbally inspired by God. Almost his entire book (with the exception of a few narrative sections, such as in Jeremiah 28 and others) consists of words spoken directly by God through His prophet. The same phenomenon is true in the other prophetical books.


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