Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb ¹  I chose you. ²  Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

Ex 33:12,17; Ps 71:5,6; Isa 49:1,5; Lu 1:15,41; Lu 1:76; Ro 1:1; Ro 8:29; Ga 1:15,16; Eph 1:22; Eph 4:11,12; 2Ti 2:19-21

¹ tn Heb “the womb.” The words “your mother’s” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “I knew you.” The parallelism here with “set you apart” and “appointed you” make clear that Jeremiah is speaking of his foreordination to be a prophet. For this same nuance of the Hebrew verb see Gen 18:19; Amos 3:2.