Jeremiah 1:9
Good News Translation
Then the LORD reached out, touched my lips, and said to me, "Listen, I am giving you the words you must speak.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, “Now I have put my words in your mouth.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD reached out his hand, then he touched my mouth and said, "I am giving you the words to say,

New American Bible
Then the LORD extended his hand and touched my mouth, saying to me, See, I place my words in your mouth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

and touched

Exodus 4:11,12 The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I? . . .

Isaiah 6:6,7 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar. . . .

Isaiah 49:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of his hand he hath protected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow: in his quiver he hath hidden me.

Isaiah 50:4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.

behold

Jeremiah 5:14 Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.

Exodus 4:15,16 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do. . . .

Isaiah 51:16 I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.

Ezekiel 3:10 And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:

Matthew 10:19 But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak:

Luke 12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you must say.

Context
The Call of Jeremiah
8Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. 9And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:10Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.…
Cross References
Mark 7:33
And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.

Exodus 4:11
The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Exodus 4:12
Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.

Exodus 4:15
Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do.

Numbers 23:5
And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Isaiah 6:7
And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.

Isaiah 51:16
I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.

Jeremiah 5:14
Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.

Jeremiah 36:2
Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.

Daniel 10:10
And behold a hand touched me, and lifted me up upon my knees, and upon the joints of my hands.

Daniel 10:16
And behold as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips: then I opened my mouth and spoke, and said to him that stood before me: O my lord, at the sight of thee my joints are loosed, and no strength hath remained in me.

Jeremiah 1:8
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