1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who wereain Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of aJosiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, bin the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 It came also in the days of aJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, buntil the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, cuntil the carrying away of Jerusalem captive din the fifth month.
5 “Before I1aformed you in the womb bI knew you; Before you were born I csanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
6 Then said I: a“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”
7 But the Lord said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And awhatever I command you, you shall speak.
8aDo not be afraid of their faces, For bI am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord.
9 Then the Lord put forth His hand and atouched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: “Behold, I have bput My words in your mouth.
10aSee, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To broot out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”
11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a1 branch of an almond tree.”
12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am1 ready to perform My word.”
(Jeremiah 1:1-3, probably prefixed by Jeremiah, when he collected his prophecies and gave them to his countrymen to take with them to Babylon [MICHAELIS])
Anathoth—a town in Benjamin, twenty stadia, that is, two or three miles north of Jerusalem; now Anata (compare Isaiah 10:30, and the context, Isaiah 10:28-32). One of the four cities allotted to the Kohathites in Benjamin (Joshua 21:18). Compare I Kings 2:26-27; a stigma was cast thenceforth on the whole sacerdotal family resident there; this may be alluded to in the words here, "the priests . . . in Anathoth." God chooses "the weak, base, and despised things . . . to confound the mighty."
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