Jeremiah 1:6-11

⁶Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don`t know how to speak; for I am a child. <sup>7</sup>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. ⁸Don`t be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, says Yahweh. ⁹Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth: ¹⁰behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

¹¹Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.