When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.

I will listen to what God the Lord says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.

I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.

As he spoke to me, a wind came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.

Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, “the Lord declares,” although I myself never spoke?

He said to me, “Don’t be afraid, you who are valued. Peace be to you! Be strong! Be really strong!” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened. I said, “Sir, you may speak now, for you have given me strength.”

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Then Shechem’s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.

Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

When the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

God spoke all these words:

Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face.

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: