Then Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; here we are, my lord's slaves, both we and [he] also with whom the cup was found."

He will guard the feet of His saints, But the wicked shall be silent in darkness. "For by strength no man shall prevail.

"that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done," says the Lord GOD.' "

"So he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

So the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? [Have] not I, the LORD?

"But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they [are] a rebellious house.

' In that day I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to spring forth, and I will open your mouth to speak in their midst. Then they shall know that I [am] the LORD.' "

Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."

Because Your lovingkindness [is] better than life, My lips shall praise You.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.

With my lips I have declared All the judgments of Your mouth.

Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of [our] lips, giving thanks to His name.