⁴ [The ^[a]Servant of God says] The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple and of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as a disciple [as one who is taught].

⁵ The Lord God has opened My ear, and I have not been rebellious or turned backward.

²³ A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment—how good it is!

¹¹ A word fitly spoken and in due season is like apples of gold in settings of silver.^(A)

¹⁰ I am the Lord your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

¹² For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour and ^[a]moment what [you] ought to say.