6. And said I, “Ah, Master יהוה! See, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.”
7. And יהוה said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ but go to all to whom I send you, and speak whatever I command you.
8. “Do not fear their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares יהוה.
9. Then יהוה put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and יהוה said to me, “See, I have put My words in your mouth.
10. “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the reigns, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
11. And the word of יהוה came to me, saying, “What do you see, Yirmeyahu?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
12. And יהוה said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to do it.”
13. And the word of יהוה came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”
14. And יהוה said to me, “Out of the north evil is set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.