Bible Verses About Language

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab–shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

Then Rab–shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.

Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.