Jeremiah 1:3-5

Good News Translation

^3 (A)and he spoke to him again when Josiah's son Jehoiakim was king. After that, the Lord spoke to him many times, until the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah. In the fifth month of that year the people of Jerusalem were taken into exile.

The Call of Jeremiah

⁴ The Lord said to me, ⁵ “I chose you before I gave you life, and before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations.”