Jeremiah 1:9

1:9 Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me. ¹ 

Daniel 10:16

10:16 Then ²  one who appeared to be a human being ³  was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, ⁴  due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.

¹ tn Heb “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.” This is an example of the Hebrew “scheduling” perfect or the “prophetic” perfect where a future event is viewed as so certain it is spoken of as past. The Hebrew particle rendered here “assuredly” (Heb הִנֵּה, hinneh) underlines the certitude of the promise for the future. See the translator’s note on v. 6.

² tn Heb “Behold.”

³ tc So most Hebrew MSS; one Hebrew MS along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and LXX read “something that looked like a man’s hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.