Luke 1:64
Good News Translation
At that moment Zechariah was able to speak again, and he started praising God.

New Revised Standard Version
Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began to speak, praising God.

Contemporary English Version
At once, Zechariah started speaking and praising God.

New American Bible
Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed: and he spoke, blessing God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed: and he spoke, blessing God.

his mouth.

Luke 1:20 And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou hast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.

Exodus 4:15,16 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do. . . .

Psalm 51:15 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Jeremiah 1:9 And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

Ezekiel 3:27 But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 29:21 In that day a horn shall bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:22 And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till he came to me in the morning, and my mouth being opened, I was silent no more.

Matthew 9:33 And after the devil was cast out, the dumb man spoke, and the multitudes wondered, saying, Never was the like seen in Israel.

Mark 7:32-37 And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him. . . .

and he.

Psalm 30:7-12 O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled. . . .

Psalm 118:18,19 The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered me over to death. . . .

Isaiah 12:1 And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.

Daniel 4:34-37 Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase. . . .

Context
The Birth of John the Baptist
63And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his name. And they all wondered. 64And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed: and he spoke, blessing God. 65And fear came upon all their neighbours: and all these things were noised abroad over all the hill country of Judea.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:11
The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Ezekiel 33:22
And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before he that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till he came to me in the morning, and my mouth being opened, I was silent no more.

Luke 1:20
And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou hast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.

Luke 1:63
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