Silence

But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.   Judges 3:19 

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.   Job 4:16-20 

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.   Job 29:21 

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.   Job 31:34, 35 

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.   Psalm 31:18 

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.   Psalm 32:3 

This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.   Psalm 35:22 

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.   Psalm 39:2 

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.   Psalm 50:3 

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.   Psalm 50:21 

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.   Psalm 83:1 

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.   Psalm 94:17 

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.   Psalm 115:17 

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.   Ecclesiastes 3:7, 8 

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.   Isaiah 15:1, 2 

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.   Isaiah 41:1 

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.   Isaiah 62:6, 7 

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.   Isaiah 65:6, 7 

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.   Jeremiah 8:14 

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.   Lamentations 2:10 

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.   Lamentations 3:28 

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.   Amos 5:13 

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.   Amos 8:3 

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.   Habakkuk 2:20 

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.   Matthew 22:34 

Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.   Acts 15:12 

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,   Acts 21:40 

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.   Acts 22:1-3 

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.   1 Corinthians 14:28 

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.   1 Corinthians 14:34 

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.   1 Timothy 2:11, 12 

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.   1 Peter 2:15, 16 

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.   Revelation 8:1 

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