“Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Moab and Seir say, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations.”

Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?

This is what the sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our property!”’

Therefore say to the people: The Lord who rules over all says, “Turn to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will turn to you,” says the Lord who rules over all.

“For the Lord who rules over all says, ‘As I had planned to hurt you when your fathers made me angry,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘and I was not sorry,

“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the Lord who rules over all. “Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”

Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside, and Issachar, when you are in your tents.

Of Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s cub; he will leap forth from Bashan.

Joshua told the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh:

He replied, “Yes, go and say to your master, ‘Elijah is back.’”

“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’

For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, ‘You have done what is wicked’?

There is no actual speech or word, nor is its voice literally heard.