The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.

Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.

Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs him down, but an encouraging word brings him joy.

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time – how good it is!

The delight of kings is righteous counsel, and they love the one who speaks uprightly.

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable.”

As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers,

When David got up the next morning, the Lord had already spoken to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him,

But the king’s edict stood, despite Joab’s objections. So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel before returning to Jerusalem.

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.

He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.

And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses.

Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.