¹² Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you shall say.

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.

⁵ Who satisfies your mouth [your necessity and desire at your personal age and situation] with good so that your youth, renewed, is like the eagle’s [strong, overcoming, soaring]!^(A)

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.

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious about how or what you are to speak; for what you are to say will be given you in that very hour and ^[a]moment,

²⁰ For it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

¹¹ Now when they take you [to court] and put you under arrest, do not be anxious beforehand about what you are to say ^[a]nor [even] meditate about it; but say whatever is given you in that hour and at ^[b]the moment, for it is not you who will be speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

¹¹ And when they bring you before the synagogues and the magistrates and the authorities, do not be anxious [beforehand] how you shall reply in defense or what you are to say.

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

⁶ Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you].

² For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature.

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