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 stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
God's promise to the prophet sent to kings and nations — 'I have put my words in your mouth' — is the prophetic-call template behind 10:19-20: do not be anxious what to say, for it will be given you in that hour; it is the Spirit of your Father speaking in you. The handing-over of words to a divinely commissioned spokesman before hostile rulers is the same scene.
High confidenceThe promise 'do not be anxious what you will say... it is not you who speak but the Holy Spirit' echoes the LORD's commission to Jeremiah, 'do not say I am only a youth... I have put my words in your mouth,' the prophetic-inspiration topos. The assurance of divinely given speech before hostile powers follows the call-narrative pattern.
Medium confidence