I will speak highly of you, my God and King, and I will bless your name forever and ever.

I will speak about the glorious splendor of your majesty as well as your awesome actions.

People will speak about the might of your great deeds, and I will announce your greatness.

They will speak about the glory of your kingdom, and they will talk about your might,

delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things,

Never talk deceptively and don't keep company with people whose speech is corrupt.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.

A worthless man, a wicked man, goes around with devious speech,

Everything I have to say is just; there isn't anything corrupt or perverse in my speech.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. Pride, arrogance, an evil lifestyle, and perverted speech I despise.

Wisdom characterizes the speech of the discerning, but the rod is for the backs of those lacking discernment.

The words of the wicked lead to bloodshed, but the speech of the upright delivers them.

An evil man's sinful speech ensnares him, but the righteous person escapes from trouble.

By his fruitful speech a man can remain satisfied, and a man's handiwork will reward him.

Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.

Deceitful speech is reprehensible to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

The wise speak, presenting knowledge appropriately, but fools spout foolishness.

A gentle statement is a tree of life, but perverted speech shatters the spirit.

When a king is ready to speak officially, what he says should not err with respect to justice.

Kings take pleasure in righteous speech; they treasure a person who speaks what is upright.

The wise-hearted person is told to be discerning, and that pleasant speech promotes instruction.

A wise person's thoughts control his words, and his speech promotes instruction.

Whoever practices evil pays attention to wicked speech, and the liar listens to malicious talk.

Appropriate speech is inconsistent with the fool; how much more are deceitful statements with a prince!

The person whose mind is perverse does not find good, and anyone with perverted speech falls into trouble.

Whoever loves purity and gracious speech will gain the king as his friend.

Don't speak when a fool is listening, because he'll despise your wise words.

My innermost being will be glad when your lips speak what is right.

Your eyes will see strange things, and with slurred words you'll speak what you really believe.

Don't testify against your neighbor without a cause, and don't lie when you speak.

Wounds from someone who loves are trustworthy, but kisses from an enemy speak volumes.

Speak for those who cannot speak; seek justice for all those on the verge of destruction.

Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

a time to tear, and a time to mend; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;

Don't be impulsive with your mouth nor be in a hurry to talk in God's presence. Since God is in heaven and you're on earth, keep your speech short.

He begins his speech with foolishness, and concludes it with evil madness.

My beloved spoke to me: "Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.

Later on, the LORD spoke to Ahaz again:

The LORD spoke to me again:

For this is what the LORD spoke to me, as his forceful hand was resting on me, and as he was warning me not to live the way this people were living:

Therefore the Lord does not have pity on their young men, and has no compassion on their orphans and widows, because each of them was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.

"For the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem; he will punish the speech that comes from that willful heart of Assyria's king and the haughty look in his eyes.

This was the message that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.

At that time, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

at that time the LORD spoke through Amoz's son Isaiah: "Go loosen the sackcloth that's around your waist, and take your sandals off your feet." So that's what he did: he went around naked and barefoot.

Very well, then, through the mouths of foreigners and foreign languages the LORD will speak to this people

"Pay attention! Listen to what I have to say; Pay attention, and hear my speech.

and you will be brought down. You will speak from the ground, and your speech will mumble from the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the ground, and your speech will whisper from the dust.

The hearts of reckless people will understand sound judgment, and the tongues of those who stammer will be ready to speak clearly.

No longer will you see those arrogant people, those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language you cannot understand.

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah replied to him, "Please speak with your servants with us in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew where the people sitting on the wall can hear."

But the field commander asked, "Was it only to all of you and to your master that my master sent me to speak these things? Wasn't it also to the men sitting on the wall who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?"

"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her heavy service has been completed, that her penalty has been paid, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins."

"Be silent before me, you coastlands, and let the people renew their strength! Let them come forward, then let them speak together let's draw near for a ruling.

the people whom I formed for myself and so that they may speak my praise."

Who is like me? Let him proclaim and declare it, and lay it out for himself since he made an ancient people. And let him speak future events; let them tell him what will happen.

I didn't speak in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I didn't say to Jacob's descendants, "Seek me in chaos.' I, the LORD, speak truth, declaring what is right.

"Pass through the gates! prepare the way for the people! Build up! Build up the highway! Clear it of stumbling stones, speak among the nations.

I'll consign you to the sword, and all of you will bend down for the slaughter because when I called, you didn't answer, when I spoke, you didn't listen; but you did what was evil in my sight, and chose what I took no pleasure in."

Therefore I, too, will choose harsh treatment for them, and will bring upon them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn't listen; but they did what I consider to be evil, and chose what doesn't please me."

I replied, "Ah, LORD God! Look, I don't know how to speak, because I'm only a young man."

Then the LORD told me, "Don't say, "I'm only a young man,' for you will go everywhere I send you, and you will speak everything I command you.

A wind too strong for that is coming at my bidding. Now I'm judging them as I speak."

Let me go to the leaders and speak to them. For they know the LORD's way, the requirement of their God." "But they, all together, have broken the yoke and torn off the restraints.

To whom will I speak and give a warning so they'll listen? Look, their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. Look, this message from the LORD is contemptible to them; they don't delight in it.

Now, because you have done all these things," declares the LORD, "I spoke to you over and over again, but you didn't listen. I called to you, but you didn't answer.

"Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. Indeed, when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn't speak or command them about burnt offering and sacrifice,

Speak! "This is what the LORD says: "The corpses of people will fall like dung on the surface of the field, and like a row of cut grain behind the harvester when there is no one to gather it."'"

Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They can't speak! They must always be carried because they can't walk! Don't be afraid of them because they can do no harm, nor can they do any good."

Indeed, even your brothers and your father's family conspire against you. Even they cry out after you loudly. Don't believe them, even though they speak friendly words to you.

Then the LORD told me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I didn't send them, I didn't command them, and I didn't speak to them. They're proclaiming to you false visions, worthless predictions, and the delusions of their own minds.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I'll take you back and you will stand before me. If you speak what is worthwhile, instead of what is worthless, then you will be my spokesman. People will turn to you, but you aren't to turn to them.

"When you speak all these words to this people, they'll say to you, "Why has the LORD pronounced all this disaster against us? What is our iniquity, and what is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it.

But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I'll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it.

At another moment I may speak about a nation or kingdom to build it or plant it.

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to take my life. Remember! I stood before you and spoke good on their behalf in order to turn your wrath away from them.

Indeed, as often as I speak, I cry out, and shout, "Violence and destruction!" For this message from the LORD has caused me constant reproach and derision.

When I say, "I won't remember the LORD, nor will I speak in his name anymore, then there is this burning fire in my heart. It is bound up in my bones, I grow weary of trying to hold it in, and I cannot do it!

I spoke to you when you were secure, but you said, "I won't listen!" This has been your way since your youth, for you haven't obeyed me.

I didn't send these prophets, but they ran anyway. I didn't speak to them, but they prophesied.

Let the prophet who has a dream relate the dream, but let whoever receives my message speak my message truthfully. What does straw have in common with wheat?" declares the LORD.

I'll bring on that land all the things I spoke against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied about the nations.

The priests, the prophets, and all the people listened as Jeremiah spoke these words at the LORD's Temple.

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and to all the people: "The LORD has sent me to prophesy all the things you heard against this house and against this city.

I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah using words like these: "Bring your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. Serve him and his people, and you will live!

Then I spoke to the priests and all of the people: "This is what the LORD says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: "The vessels from the Temple are about to be returned from Babylon very soon now." Indeed, they're prophesying a lie to you.

The prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in front of the priests and all the people who were standing in the LORD's Temple.

because they did something stupid in Israel. They committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and in my name they spoke lies that I didn't command them. I'm the one who knows, and I'm a witness," declares the LORD.'"

These are the words that the LORD spoke about Israel and Judah:

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "They'll again speak this message in the land of Judah and its towns when I restore their fortunes: "The LORD bless you, righteous dwelling, holy mountain.'

Zedekiah, king of Judah, won't escape from the Chaldeans, for he has surely been given over to the king of Babylon. He will speak to him face to face and look at him eye to eye.

""Look, the time is coming,' declares the LORD, "when I'll fulfill the good promise that I spoke concerning the house of Israel and Judah.

"This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Go and speak to king Zedekiah of Judah. Say to him, "This is what the LORD says: "Look, I'm giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will set it on fire.

You won't escape from him. You will certainly be captured and given into his control. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, he will speak to you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.'"'

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all of this in Jerusalem to king Zedekiah of Judah,

"Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them. Bring them into the LORD's Temple, to one of the offices, and offer them wine to drink."

Therefore, this is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel says: "Look, I'm bringing on Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster that I pronounced against them, because I spoke to them, but they didn't listen, and I called out to them, but they didn't answer."'"

"Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I've spoken to you about Israel, about Judah, and about all the nations, since I first spoke to you in the time of Josiah until the present time.

so Ebed-melech went out of the palace and spoke to the king: