(A)Then the Lord put out his hand and (B)touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

“Behold, I have put (C)my words in your mouth.

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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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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.

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15 For I will give you(A) words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

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11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and (A)I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”

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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? 12 Now go;(C) I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”(D)

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12 (A)for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

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12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”(A)

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16 (A)And I have put my words in your mouth
    (B)and covered you in the shadow of my hand,
(C)establishing[a] the heavens
    and (D)laying the foundations of the earth,
    and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:16 Or planting

16 I have put my words in your mouth(A)
    and covered you with the shadow of my hand(B)
I who set the heavens in place,
    who laid the foundations of the earth,(C)
    and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.(D)’”

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The Lord God has given (A)me
    the tongue of those who are taught,
that (B)I may know how to sustain with a word
    (C)him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
    he awakens my ear
    to hear as those who are taught.

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The Sovereign Lord(A) has given me a well-instructed tongue,(B)
    to know the word that sustains the weary.(C)
He wakens me morning by morning,(D)
    wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.(E)

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19 (A)When (B)they deliver you over, (C)do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for (D)what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.

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19 But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it.(A) At that time you will be given what to say,

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The Lord Proclaims Judgment

14 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts:
“Because you have spoken this word,
behold, (A)I am making my words in your mouth (B)a fire,
    and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them.

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14 Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty says:

“Because the people have spoken these words,
    I will make my words in your mouth(A) a fire(B)
    and these people the wood it consumes.(C)

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10 Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, (A)all my words that I shall speak to you receive (B)in your heart, and hear with your ears.

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10 And he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart(A) all the words I speak to you.

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(A)He made my mouth like a sharp sword;
    (B)in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow;
    in his quiver he hid me away.

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He made my mouth(A) like a sharpened sword,(B)
    in the shadow of his hand(C) he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow(D)
    and concealed me in his quiver.

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15 (A)You shall speak to him and (B)put the words in his mouth, and (C)I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. 16 (D)He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and (E)you shall be as God to him.

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15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth;(A) I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth(B) and as if you were God to him.(C)

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Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he (A)touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

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Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal(A) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(B) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(C)

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