Chapter summary

Jeremiah 1 Summary

Jeremiah 1 records the LORD's call of young Jeremiah — «before I formed you in the womb I knew you» — to a prophetic ministry of pulling down and building up.

God speaks to Jeremiah, who protests his youth. God touches his mouth and puts his words there. Two visions follow — an almond branch (God watching over his word) and a boiling pot (judgment from the north).

God tells him to «gird up your loins, arise, and say to them everything I command you.» He is set «as a fortified city, an iron pillar… for I am with you to deliver you.» A foundational call for a long, hard ministry.

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Jeremiah 1:5 ““Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”” Jeremiah 1:9 “Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.”

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