Speak

Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”

…and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.

But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”

But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever my God tells me.”

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?

Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

…my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.

My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

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

Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.

They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

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

For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,

They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”

You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

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.

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

…who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

…whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,

When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.

Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

…a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

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.

The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.

But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”

But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”

Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.

You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

…and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.