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Jeremiah 1:9

Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold (hear Me), I have put My words in your mouth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Excuses;   Government;   Jeremiah;   Minister, Christian;   Prophets;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionary Work by Ministers;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God;   Touch;   Word;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Inspiration of Scripture;   Jeremiah;   Mission(s);   Word;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Holy Spirit;   Isaiah, Book of;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Inspiration;   Prophet;   Transfiguration (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Revelation;   Self-Surrender;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the Lord reached out his hand, touched my mouth, and told me:
Hebrew Names Version
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth:
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
New Century Version
Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth. He said to me, "See, I am putting my words in your mouth.
World English Bible
Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Lord stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said vnto me, Beholde, I haue put my wordes in thy mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh sent forth His hand and touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me,"Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: "Behold, I have put My words into your mouth.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord reached out his hand, then he touched my mouth and said, "I am giving you the words to say,
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Adonai put out his hand and touched my mouth, and Adonai said to me, "There! I have put my words in your mouth.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord reached out with his hand and touched my mouth. He said to me, "Jeremiah, I am putting my words in your mouth.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
Good News Translation
Then the Lord reached out, touched my lips, and said to me, "Listen, I am giving you the words you must speak.
Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and he touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me, "Look, I have put my words in your mouth.
Literal Translation
Then Jehovah put out His hand and touched my mouth. And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I have put My Words in your mouth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And with that, the LORDE stretched out his honde, and touched my mouth, and sayde morouer vnto me: Beholde I put my wordes in thy mouth,
American Standard Version
Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth:
Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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;
King James Version (1611)
Then the Lord put foorth his hand, and touched my mouth, and the Lord said vnto me, Behold, I haue put my words in thy mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And with that the Lorde stretched out his hande and touched my mouth: and the same Lorde sayde vnto me, Beholde, I put my wordes in thy mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord stretched forth his hand to me, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words into thy mouth.
English Revised Version
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:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord sente his hond, and touchide my mouth; and the Lord seide to me, Lo! Y haue youe my wordis in thi mouth; lo!
Update Bible Version
Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Look, I have put my words in your mouth:
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
New English Translation
Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.
New King James Version
Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
New Living Translation
Then the Lord reached out and touched my mouth and said, "Look, I have put my words in your mouth!
New Life Bible
Then the Lord put out His hand and touched my mouth, and said to me, "See, I have put My words in your mouth.
New Revised Standard
Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, "Now I have put my words in your mouth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth, - and Yahweh said unto me, Lo! I have put my words in thy mouth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:
Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah putteth forth His hand, and striketh against my mouth, and Jehovah saith unto me, `Lo, I have put my words in thy mouth.
THE MESSAGE
God reached out, touched my mouth, and said, "Look! I've just put my words in your mouth—hand-delivered! See what I've done? I've given you a job to do among nations and governments—a red-letter day! Your job is to pull up and tear down, take apart and demolish, And then start over, building and planting."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

Contextual Overview

4Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations." 6Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, For I am [only] a young man." 7But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am [only] a young man,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And whatever I command you, you shall speak. 8"Do not be afraid of them [or their hostile faces], For I am with you [always] to protect you and deliver you," says the LORD. 9Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold (hear Me), I have put My words in your mouth.10"See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To uproot and break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and touched: Exodus 4:11, Exodus 4:12, Isaiah 6:6, Isaiah 6:7, Isaiah 49:2, Isaiah 50:4, Luke 21:15

Behold: Jeremiah 5:14, Exodus 4:15, Exodus 4:16, Isaiah 51:16, Ezekiel 3:10, Matthew 10:19, Luke 12:12

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:5 - General Deuteronomy 31:19 - put it in their 2 Samuel 14:3 - put the words Ezra 8:17 - I told them Ezekiel 2:9 - an hand Daniel 10:10 - an hand Daniel 10:16 - touched Luke 1:64 - his mouth John 9:39 - For Acts 15:7 - by my Revelation 10:11 - Thou

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be an expanse [of the sky] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters [below the expanse] from the waters [above the expanse]."
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse [of sky] heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
So God said, "Let the earth sprout [tender] vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind, whose seed is in them upon the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 1:29
So God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Job 26:7
"It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness And hangs the earth on nothing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the Lord put forth his hand,.... Who, according to Kimchi, was the Angel that appeared to the prophet, and spoke in the name of the Lord to him, and is called by his name; but rather it was the Son of God, the true Jehovah, who appeared in a human form he assumed for the present, and put forth his hand:

and touched my mouth; just as one of the seraphim touched the mouth and lips of the Prophet Isaiah with a live coal from the altar, Isaiah 6:6, by this symbol the prophet was inducted into his office; and it was suggested to him that his mouth was now sanctified to the Lord's use and service; and that what he should speak should not be his own words, but the words of the Lord; and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"and the Lord sent the words of his prophecy, and ordered them in my mouth;''

to which agrees what follows:

and the Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words in thy mouth; which was signified by the preceding symbol; wherefore he might with great freedom and boldness deliver them out to others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Touched - “Made it touch.” This was the symbol of the bestowal of divine grace and help, by which that want of eloquence, which the prophet had pleaded as a disqualification, was removed.


 
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