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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 1 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Jeremiah 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/66.htm" title="Isaiah 66">◄</a> Jeremiah 1 <a href="../jeremiah/2.htm" title="Jeremiah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.1" class="v24_1_1">1</span>This book is the account of what was said by Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests of the town of Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. </span><span class="v24_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.2" class="v24_1_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.1.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah, </span><span class="v24_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.3" class="v24_1_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.1.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and he spoke to him again when Josiah's son Jehoiakim was king. After that, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to him many times, until the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah. In the fifth month of that year the people of Jerusalem were taken into exile.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Call of Jeremiah</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.4" class="v24_1_4">4</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to me, </span><span class="v24_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.5" class="v24_1_5">5</span>“I chose you before I gave you life, and before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.6" class="v24_1_6">6</span>I answered, “Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span>, I don't know how to speak; I am too young.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.7" class="v24_1_7">7</span>But the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to me, “Do not say that you are too young, but go to the people I send you to, and tell them everything I command you to say. </span><span class="v24_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.8" class="v24_1_8">8</span>Do not be afraid of them, for I will be with you to protect you. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.9" class="v24_1_9">9</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> reached out, touched my lips, and said to me, “Listen, I am giving you the words you must speak. </span><span class="v24_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.10" class="v24_1_10">10</span>Today I give you authority over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Two Visions</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.11" class="v24_1_11">11</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> asked me, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_11">I answered, “A branch of an almond tree.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.12" class="v24_1_12">12</span>“You are right,” the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “and I am watching<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.1.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to see that my words come true.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.13" class="v24_1_13">13</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to me again. “What else do you see?” he asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_13">I answered, “I see a pot boiling in the north, and it is about to tip over this way.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.14" class="v24_1_14">14</span>He said to me, “Destruction will boil over from the north on all who live in this land, </span><span class="v24_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.15" class="v24_1_15">15</span>because I am calling all the nations in the north to come. Their kings will set up their thrones at the gates of Jerusalem and around its walls and also around the other cities of Judah. </span><span class="v24_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.16" class="v24_1_16">16</span>I will punish my people because they have sinned; they have abandoned me, have offered sacrifices to other gods, and have made idols and worshiped them. </span><span class="v24_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.17" class="v24_1_17">17</span>Get ready, Jeremiah; go and tell them everything I command you to say. Do not be afraid of them now, or I will make you even more afraid when you are with them. </span><span class="v24_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.1.18-Jer.1.19" class="v24_1_18">18-19</span>Listen, Jeremiah! Everyone in this land—the kings of Judah, the officials, the priests, and the people—will be against you. But today I am giving you the strength to resist them; you will be like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall. They will not defeat you, for I will be with you to protect you. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.12: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">watching: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This word in Hebrew sounds like the Hebrew for “almond.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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