Rather, “Before I formed thee in the belly.” I approved of you (as one fit for the prophetic office), and “before thou camest forth fr…

I knew thee. — With the force that the word often has in Hebrew, as implying not foreknowledge only, but choice and appro…

He was only young, and when young men are called to be ambassadors for God, they ought to feel the weight of the responsibility that rests upon the…

Here Jeremiah explains more fully what he had already mentioned: that he had been called from above, for otherwise he would have presumptuously obt…

Before I formed you in the belly I knew you Not merely by his omniscience, so he knows all men before their conception an…

Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is stated. He was to be a prophet, not only to the Jews but also to the neighbouring nati…

1. Here begins the discourse of the book itself. First, the office of prophet is enjoined upon Jeremiah. Second, a prophecy is given to the …