World English Bible
"Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child.""
— Jeremiah 1:6, World English Bible
“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. ”
“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.”
“Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.”
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
"Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."
But Yahweh said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.
Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you," says Yahweh.
Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.