my soul ¹  will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. ² 

Your eyes will see strange things, ¹  and your mind will speak perverse things.

For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people. ¹ 

Ebed Melech departed the palace and went to speak to the king. He said to him,

You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

Then ¹  the disciples came to him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Peter began to speak to him, “Look, ¹  we have left everything to follow you!” ² 

for it is impossible ¹  for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,

Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom. ¹ 

With him I will speak face to face, ¹  openly, ²  and not in riddles; and he will see the form ³  of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you may only speak ¹  the word that I will speak to you.” ²  So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able ¹  to speak ²  just anything? I must speak ³  only the word that God puts in my mouth.”

“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ¹  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ¹  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ²  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

When ¹  he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They ²  realized that he had seen a vision ³  in the holy place, ⁴  because ⁵  he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak. ⁶ 

But when he, ¹  the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide ²  you into all truth. ³  For he will not speak on his own authority, ⁴  but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you ⁵  what is to come. ⁶ 

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord ¹  (although I am but dust and ashes), ² 

Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, ¹  but God will speak concerning ²  the welfare of Pharaoh.” ³