Exodus 4:11

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The LORD said to him,“Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:9 : 9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
  • Ps 146:8 : 8 The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up all who are bent over. The LORD loves the godly.
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the LORD not responsible?
  • Jer 1:6 : 6 I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”
  • Jer 1:9 : 9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,“I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.
  • Ezek 3:26-27 : 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue and you must say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 33:22 : 22 Now the hand of the LORD had been on me the evening before the refugee reached me, but the LORD opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak.
  • Isa 6:7 : 7 He touched my mouth with it and said,“Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.”
  • Isa 35:5-6 : 5 Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear. 6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, the mute tongue will shout for joy; for water will burst forth in the wilderness, streams in the arid rift valley.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”
  • Ps 51:15 : 15 O Lord, give me the words! Then my mouth will praise you.

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    18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

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    15“So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do.

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