for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.

A time to rip, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak.

This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

I, I have spoken – yes, I have summoned him; I lead him and he will succeed.

Then I said to the people of Judah, “Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the Lord has spoken.

And there are times when I promise to build up and establish a nation or kingdom.

I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.

While he was saying this to me, I was flat on the ground and unable to speak.

Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement lid that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim. Thus he spoke to him.

When the Lord heard you speaking to me, he said to me, “I have heard what these people have said to you – they have spoken well.

“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ Say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father!

The officials may hear that I have talked with you. They may come to you and say, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you. Do not hide anything from us. If you do, we will kill you.’

For I, the Lord, will speak. Whatever word I speak will be accomplished. It will not be delayed any longer. Indeed in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and accomplish it, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.