King James Version with Apocrypha
"Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child."
— Jeremiah 1:6, King James Version with Apocrypha
“Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.”
“Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child. ”
“Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."”
“I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.””
“And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.”
“Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.”
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
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.