Then the Lord reached out and touched my mouth and said, “Look, I have put my words in your mouth!
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
- NKJV 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.
- NASB 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.
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Quick answer
God touches Jeremiah's mouth and puts His words there, equipping him to prophesy. The message is God's own, placed in the prophet.
Overview
By touching Jeremiah's mouth, Yahweh symbolically supplies the very words the prophet will speak. This act assures that Jeremiah's message carries divine authority, not mere human opinion. It illustrates the doctrine that Scripture is God-breathed, with God's words on the prophet's lips.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Luke 21:15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
- Exod 4:11–12Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
- Luke 12:12for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”
- Isa 51:16I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
- Isa 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Matt 10:19But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
- Jer 5:14Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
- Ezek 3:10Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
- Exod 4:15–16You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- Isa 49:2He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.
- Isa 6:6–7Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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