Quotes about Language

At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.