Yehezkiel 11:25

11:25 So I told the exiles everything ¹  the Lord had shown me.

Yehezkiel 24:27

24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; ²  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 29:21

29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful, ³  and I will give you the right to be heard ⁴  among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 33:32

33:32 Realize ⁵  that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. ⁶  They hear your words, but they do not obey them. ⁷ 

Keluaran 4:11-12

4:11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave ⁸  a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ⁹  4:12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth ¹⁰  and will teach you ¹¹  what you must say.” ¹² 

Lukas 21:15

21:15 For I will give you the words ¹³  along with the wisdom ¹⁴  that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

Efesus 6:19

6:19 Pray ¹⁵  for me also, that I may be given the message when I begin to speak ¹⁶  – that I may confidently make known ¹⁷  the mystery of the gospel,

[11:25]  ¹ tn Heb “all the words of.”

[24:27]  ² tn Heb “your mouth will open.”

[29:21]  ³ tn Heb “I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel.” The horn is used as a figure for military power in the OT (Ps 92:10). A similar expression is made about the Davidic dynasty in Ps 132:17.

[29:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will grant you an open mouth.”

[33:32]  ⁵ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[33:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “one who makes playing music well.”

[33:32]  ⁷ sn Similar responses are found in Isa 29:13; Matt 21:28-32; James 1:22-25.

[4:11]  ⁸ tn The verb שִׂים (sim) means “to place, put, set”; the sentence here more precisely says, “Who put a mouth into a man?”

[4:11]  sn The argumentation by Moses is here met by Yahweh’s rhetorical questions. They are intended to be sharp – it is reproof for Moses. The message is twofold. First, Yahweh is fully able to overcome all of Moses’ deficiencies. Second, Moses is exactly the way that God intended him to be. So the rhetorical questions are meant to prod Moses’ faith.

[4:11]  ⁹ sn The final question obviously demands a positive answer. But the clause is worded in such a way as to return to the theme of “I AM.” Isaiah 45:5-7 developed this same idea of God’s control over life. Moses protests that he is not an eloquent speaker, and the Lord replies with reminders about himself and promises, “I will be with your mouth,” an assertion that repeats the verb he used four times in 3:12 and 14 and in promises to Isaac and Jacob (Gen 26:3; 31:3).

[4:12]  ¹⁰ sn The promise of divine presence always indicates intervention (for blessing or cursing). Here it means that God would be working through the organs of speech to help Moses speak. See Deut 18:18; Jer 1:9.

[4:12]  ¹¹ sn The verb is וְהוֹרֵיתִיךָ (vÿhoretikha), the Hiphil perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive. The form carries the instructional meaning because it follows the imperative “go.” In fact, there is a sequence at work here: “go…and/that I may teach you.” It is from יָרָה (yara), the same root behind תּוֹרָה (torah, “law”). This always referred to teaching either wisdom or revelation. Here Yahweh promises to teach Moses what to say.

[4:12]  ¹² tn The form is the imperfect tense. While it could be taken as a future (“what you will say”), an obligatory imperfect captures the significance better (“what you must say” or “what you are to say”). Not even the content of the message will be left up to Moses.

[21:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “a mouth.” It is a metonymy and refers to the reply the Lord will give to them.

[21:15]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “and wisdom.”

[6:19]  ¹⁵ tn To avoid a lengthy, convoluted sentence in English, the Greek sentence was broken up at this point and the verb “pray” was inserted in the English translation to pick up the participle προσευχόμενοι (proseuxomenoi, “praying”) in v. 18.

[6:19]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “that a word may be given to me in the opening of my mouth.” Here “word” (λόγος, logo") is used in the sense of “message.”

[6:19]  ¹⁷ tn The infinitive γνωρίσαι (gnwrisai, “to make known”) is functioning epexegetically to further explain what the author means by the preceding phrase “that I may be given the message when I begin to speak.”