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11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?(A)

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11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute?(A) Who gives them sight or makes them blind?(B) Is it not I, the Lord?

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Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
Does disaster befall a city
    unless the Lord has done it?(A)

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When a trumpet(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?(C)

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    the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
    the Lord loves the righteous.(A)

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    the Lord gives sight(A) to the blind,(B)
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,(C)
    the Lord loves the righteous.(D)

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He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?(A)

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Does he who fashioned the ear not hear?
    Does he who formed the eye not see?(A)

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26 and I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth so that you shall be speechless and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.(A) 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God’; let those who will hear, hear, and let those who refuse to hear, refuse, for they are a rebellious house.(B)

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26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof(A) of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious people.(B) 27 But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’(C) Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.(D)

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Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.”(A)

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“Alas, Sovereign Lord,” I said, “I do not know how to speak;(A) I am too young.”(B)

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The seraph[a] touched my mouth with it and said, “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.”(A)

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  1. 6.7 Heb He

With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(A) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(B)

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15 O Lord, open my lips,
    and my mouth will declare your praise.(A)

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15 Open my lips, Lord,(A)
    and my mouth will declare your praise.

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Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,

“Now I have put my words in your mouth.(A)

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Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched(A) my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.(B)

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Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
    and the ears of the deaf shall be opened;(A)
then the lame shall leap like a deer,
    and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy.
For waters shall break forth in the wilderness
    and streams in the desert;(B)

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Then will the eyes of the blind be opened(A)
    and the ears of the deaf(B) unstopped.
Then will the lame(C) leap like a deer,(D)
    and the mute tongue(E) shout for joy.(F)
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
    and streams(G) in the desert.

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14 Is anything too wonderful for the Lord? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son.”(A)

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14 Is anything too hard for the Lord?(A) I will return to you at the appointed time next year,(B) and Sarah will have a son.”(C)

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the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with a skin disease are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.(A)

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The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy[a] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 11:5 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

22 Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came, and he opened my mouth when the fugitive came in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer unable to speak.(A)

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22 Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the Lord was on me,(A) and he opened my mouth(B) before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.(C)

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