Yēlìmǐshū 1:5

5 Wǒ wèi jiāng nǐ zào zaì fù zhōng , wǒ yǐ xiǎodé nǐ . nǐ wèi chū mǔ tāi , wǒ yǐ fēnbié nǐ wèi shèng . wǒ yǐ paì nǐ zuò liè guó de xiānzhī .

Yēlìmǐshū 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 1:5

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee
Not merely by his omniscience, so he knows all men before their conception and birth; but with such a knowledge as had special love and affection joined with it; in which sense the Lord knows them that are his, as he does not others, and predestinates them unto eternal life; and which is not only before their formation in the womb, but before the foundation of the world, even from all eternity. The forming of the human foetus is God's act, and a curious piece of workmanship it is; see ( Psalms 139:15 Psalms 139:16 ) . And before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee;
not by infusing holiness into him, but by separating him in his eternal purposes and decrees to the office of a prophet before he was born, and even before the world began; just as the Apostle Paul was separated to the Gospel of God, ( Romans 1:1 ) , for it follows, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations;
not to the Israelites only, who Jarchi thinks are so called, because they now followed the usages and customs of the nations; but to the Gentiles, against whom be was sent to prophesy, ( Jeremiah 46:1 ) as Egyptians, Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, and Chaldeans. This ordination of him to be a prophet was not done in time, but in eternity, in the mind and thought of God; he was foreordained to this office before the foundation of the world, of which a declaration was made unto him when he was now called unto it; to which he makes answer.

Yēlìmǐshū 1:5 In-Context

3 Cóng Yóudà wáng Yuēxīyà de érzi yuē yǎ jìng zaì wèi de shíhou , zhídào Yóudà wáng Yuēxīyà de érzi Xīdǐjiā zaì wèi de mò nián , jiù shì shí yī nián wǔ yuè jiān Yēlùsǎlĕng rén beìlǔ de shíhou , Yēhéhuá de huà yĕ cháng líndào Yēlìmǐ .

4 Yēlìmǐ shuō , Yēhéhuá de huà líndào wǒ shuō ,

5 Wǒ wèi jiāng nǐ zào zaì fù zhōng , wǒ yǐ xiǎodé nǐ . nǐ wèi chū mǔ tāi , wǒ yǐ fēnbié nǐ wèi shèng . wǒ yǐ paì nǐ zuò liè guó de xiānzhī .

6 Wǒ jiù shuō , zhǔ Yēhéhuá a , wǒ bù zhī zĕnyàng shuō , yīnwei wǒ shì nián yòu de .

7 Yēhéhuá duì wǒ shuō , nǐ búyào shuō wǒ shì nián yòu de , yīnwei wǒ chāiqiǎn nǐ dào shuí nàli qù , nǐ dōu yào qù . wǒ fēnfu nǐ shuō shénme huà , nǐ dōu yào shuō .