A poor person makes supplications, but a rich man answers harshly.

my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

The Lord again spoke to Ahaz:

The Lord spoke to me again:

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

Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,

You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

But Balaam replied to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, I must do’?”

“Have the Israelites select the cities of refuge that I told you about through Moses.

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Wait a minute! Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night.” Saul said to him, “Tell me.”

As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, and David heard it.

So now, O Lord God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. Do as you promised,

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

The king asked them, “Describe the appearance of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”

So now, O Lord, may the promise you made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality! Do as you promised,

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

They said to him, “If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”