Is anything too hard for the LORD? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."

Help me to speak, Lord, and I will praise you.

God made our ears---can't he hear? He made our eyes---can't he see?

and gives sight to the blind. He lifts those who have fallen; he loves his righteous people.

He touched my lips with the burning coal and said, "This has touched your lips, and now your guilt is gone, and your sins are forgiven."

The blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear.

The lame will leap and dance, and those who cannot speak will shout for joy. Streams of water will flow through the desert;

You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

I answered, "Sovereign LORD, I don't know how to speak; I am too young."

Then the LORD reached out, touched my lips, and said to me, "Listen, I am giving you the words you must speak.

I will paralyze your tongue so that you won't be able to warn these rebellious people.

Then, when I speak to you again and give you back the power of speech, you will tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying. Some of them will listen, but some will ignore you, for they are a nation of rebels."

The evening before he came, I had felt the powerful presence of the LORD. When the man arrived the next morning, the LORD gave me back the power of speech.

Does the war trumpet sound in a city without making the people afraid? Does disaster strike a city unless the LORD sends it?