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Jeremiah receives his commission in a shaft of warm light among olive trees outside Jerusalem.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Jeremiah 1:9-10

Words for the nations

The Call and the Visions · Jeremiah 1

Story guide: God commissions Jeremiah to speak words that will uproot and build.

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9Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me, “Look, I have put my words in your mouth.

10See, today I have appointed you over the nations and kingdoms, to uproot and tear down, to destroy and demolish, to build and plant.”

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