²⁷ On that day your mouth ^(A)will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. ^(B)So you will be a sign to them, and ^(C)they will know that I am the Lord.”

^22 (A)Now ^(B)the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

²¹ “On that day ^(A)I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and ^(B)I will open your lips among them. ^(C)Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

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

¹⁹ and ^(A)also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth ^(B)boldly to proclaim ^(C)the mystery of the gospel,

¹⁵ for ^(A)I will give you a mouth and ^(B)wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or ^(C)contradict.

¹¹ “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” ¹² But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have ^(A)not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for ^(B)I am of uncircumcised lips?”