Ezekiel 3:26
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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)
Ezekiel 3:27
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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.’(A) Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.(B)
Ezekiel 24:27
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27 At that time your mouth will be opened; you will speak with him and will no longer be silent.(A) So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.(B)”
Ezekiel 29:21
New International Version
21 “On that day I will make a horn[a](A) grow for the Israelites, and I will open your mouth(B) among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.(C)”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 29:21 Horn here symbolizes strength.
Ezekiel 33:22
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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)
Luke 1:20-22
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20 And now you will be silent and not able to speak(A) until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”
21 Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the temple. 22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making signs(B) to them but remained unable to speak.
Luke 1:62-66
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62 Then they made signs(A) to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”(B) 64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak,(C) praising God. 65 All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea(D) people were talking about all these things. 66 Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him.(E)
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