38 Bible Verses about God Speaking

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;

Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, the Lord, has spoken,
And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

For I the Lord will speak, and whatever word I speak will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it,” declares the Lord God.’”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent; and the Lord would speak with Moses.

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He is from.”

It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.

There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel.

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;
They kept His testimonies
And the statute that He gave them.

For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,
Which lifted up the waves of the sea.

As He spoke to me the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet; and I heard Him speaking to me.

The hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”

Then He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet that I may speak with you!”

“But it is still my consolation,
And I rejoice in unsparing pain,
That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

“But would that God might speak,
And open His lips against you,

Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed;
He wept and sought His favor.
He found Him at Bethel
And there He spoke with us,

The Lord utters His voice before His army;
Surely His camp is very great,
For strong is he who carries out His word.
The day of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome,
And who can endure it?

The Lord roars from Zion
And utters His voice from Jerusalem,
And the heavens and the earth tremble.
But the Lord is a refuge for His people
And a stronghold to the sons of Israel.

A lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

He said,
“The Lord roars from Zion
And from Jerusalem He utters His voice;
And the shepherds’ pasture grounds mourn,
And the summit of Carmel dries up.”

in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.

And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts;

“Indeed God speaks once,
Or twice, yet no one notices it.
“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,
Then He opens the ears of men,
And seals their instruction,

Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”

Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them.

whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.