Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.
New American Standard Bible
Behold, I do not know how to speak,
Because
King James Version
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Holman Bible
But I protested, “Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak
International Standard Version
I replied, "Ah, LORD God! Look, I don't know how to speak, because I'm only a young man."
A Conservative Version
Then I said, Ah, lord LORD! Behold, I know not how to speak, for I am a child.
American Standard Version
Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.
Amplified
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God!
Behold, I do not know how to speak,
For I am [only] a young man.”
Darby Translation
And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child.
Julia Smith Translation
And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, behold I knew not to speak: for I a boy.
King James 2000
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know [how] to speak, for I [am] a youth."
Modern King James verseion
Then I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, I do not know to speak; for I am a boy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then said I, "Oh LORD God, I cannot speak, for I am yet but young."
NET Bible
I answered, "Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young."
New Heart English Bible
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD. Behold, I do not know how to speak; for I am a child."
The Emphasized Bible
Then said I - Ah! My Lord Yahweh! Lo! I know not how to speak, - For a child, am I!
Webster
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
World English Bible
Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."
Youngs Literal Translation
And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah! lo, I have not known -- to speak, for I am a youth.'
Themes
Children » Early piety of » Jeremiah
Children » Instances of » Jeremiah
Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » Personal weakness (jeremiah)
Humble » Examples of Leadership » Jeremiah
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 1:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Call Of Jeremiah
5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations. 6 Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child. 7 But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.
Cross References
Exodus 6:12
And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of Israel will not give ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear to me, whose lips are unclean?
Exodus 4:10-16
And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.
1 Kings 3:7-9
And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:
Exodus 4:1
And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.
Exodus 6:30
And Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is it possible that Pharaoh will give me a hearing?
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
Jeremiah 4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
Jeremiah 14:13
Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.