speak
681 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,