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When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’

Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’

Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; I too will declare what I know.’

Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.

…to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

Men of understanding will declare to me, and the wise men who hear me will say:

And Elihu went on to say:

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

For the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

…lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”

Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

May those who favor my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “Exalted be the LORD who delights in His servant’s well-being.”

May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The LORD be magnified!”

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

May those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.

“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”

I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”

If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.

I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Let Israel say, “His loving devotion endures forever.”

Let the house of Aaron say, “His loving devotion endures forever.”

Let those who fear the LORD say, “His loving devotion endures forever.”

For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

…and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?

Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.

If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?

Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”

The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:

What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows?

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.

Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.

For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

…to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

…and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

…and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.

The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”

This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:

Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.

And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.

When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—