“speech” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word speech appears 72 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 4:23 And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.
- Genesis 11:1 And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.
- Genesis 11:7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Genesis 31:50 If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
- Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
- 1 Kings 25:32 And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:
- 2 Kings 14:20 That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant Joab commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.
- 2 Esdras 13:24 And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews’ language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.
- Judith 8:21 And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.
- Esther 14:13 Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both he himself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.
- Job 5:8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
- Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 12:20 He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.
- Job 13:17 Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.
- Job 29:22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
- Psalms 18:3 Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.
- Psalms 55:11 In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.
- Psalms 103:34 Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in the Lord.
- Psalms 138:4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
- Psalms 147:15 Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.
- Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.
- Proverbs 23:9 Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
- Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9 Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.
- Canticle of Canticles 4:3 Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.
- Wisdom 1:11 Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.
- Wisdom 2:2 For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark to move our heart,
- Wisdom 3:18 And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.
- Ecclesiasticus 9:24 Works shall be praised for the hand of the artificers, and the prince of the people for the wisdom of his speech, but the word of the ancients for the sense.
- Ecclesiasticus 20:5 There is one that holdeth his peace, that is found wise: and there is another that is hateful, that is bold in speech.
- Ecclesiasticus 23:15 There is also another speech opposite to death, let it not be found in the inheritance of Jacob.
- Ecclesiasticus 23:17 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin.
- Ecclesiasticus 27:15 The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.
- Ecclesiasticus 32:16 And do what thou hast a mind, but not in sin or proud speech.
- Isaias 3:3 The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.
- Isaias 28:11 For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will speak to this people.
- Isaias 28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.
- Isaias 29:4 Thou shalt be brought down, thou shalt speak out of the earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech shall mutter.
- Isaias 32:9 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech.
- Isaias 33:19 The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.
- Ezechiel 3:5 For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:
- Ezechiel 3:6 Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown tongue, whose words thou canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to them, they would hearken to thee.
- Ezechiel 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:
- Habacuc 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?
- 2 Machabees 2:32 But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.
- 2 Machabees 15:12 Now the vision was in this manner. Onias, who had been high priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in his looks, gentle in his manners, and graceful in speech, and who from a child was exercised in virtues holding up his hands, prayed for all the people of the Jews:
- 2 Machabees 15:40 For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the speech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers. But here it shall be ended.
- Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.
- Matthew 22:15 Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.
- Matthew 26:73 And after a little while, they came that stood by and said to Peter: Surely thou also art one of them. For even thy speech doth discover thee.