Now ¹  he was casting out a demon that was mute. ²  When ³  the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, ⁴  and the crowds were amazed.

But I am like a deaf man – I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak. ¹ 

Then they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute. Jesus ¹  healed him so that he could speak and see. ² 

People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

Then ¹  large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They ²  laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

As ¹  they were going away, ²  a man who could not talk and was demon-possessed was brought to him.

A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

The Lord said to him, “Who gave ¹  a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ² 

As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

I was stone silent; ¹  I held back the urge to speak. ²  My frustration grew; ³ 

I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done. ¹ 

All their watchmen ¹  are blind, they are unaware. ²  All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, ³  lie down, and love to snooze.

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

Then the lame will leap like a deer, the mute tongue will shout for joy; for water will flow ¹  in the desert, streams in the wilderness. ² 

Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked ¹  the unclean spirit, ²  saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

May lying lips be silenced – lips ¹  that speak defiantly against the innocent ²  with arrogance and contempt!

Open your mouth ¹  on behalf of those unable to speak, ²  for the legal rights of all the dying. ³ 

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove ¹  them, for they are a rebellious house.

On that day you will be able to speak again; ¹  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”