Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: “Before I formed you … 1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. (4-5) God’s call to Jeremiah. He is still a prophet to the whole world, and it would be well if they would attend to these warnings. Verses 4-10 Here is, I. Jeremiah’s early designation to the work and office of a prophet, which God gives him notice of as a reason for his early application to that business (v. 4, v. 5): The word of the Lord came to him, with a satisfying assurance to himself that it was the word of the Lord and not a delusion; and God told him, 1.

But the Lord said unto me, say not, I am a child This excuse will not be admitted: for thou shall go to all that I shall send thee; either to "every place", as the Targum paraphrases; or "to all persons to whom" he should be sent, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render the words; or "to all things for which" he should send him, as the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions. 2 The word of the Lord came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, 3 and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile. "The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of … He was to be a prophet, not to the Jews only, but to the neighbouring nations. Jeremiah 1:7. (Read Jeremiah 1:1-10) Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is stated.