Jeremiah 1:17
Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
Note Hebrew Gird up your loins.
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
Note confound: or, break to pieces
“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- gird up
- 1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 9:1; Job 38:3; Luke 12:35; 1 Peter 1:13
- and speak
- Jeremiah 1:7; Jeremiah 23:28; Exodus 7:2; Ezekiel 3:10, 11; Jonah 3:2; Acts 20:20, 27
- be not
- Jeremiah 1:8; Jeremiah 17:18; Exodus 3:12; Ezekiel 2:6, 7; 1 Thessalonians 2:2
- confound thee
- or, break thee to pieces.
- Ezekiel 3:14–18; Ezekiel 33:6–8; 1 Corinthians 9:16