17 Bible Verses about People Being Silent
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When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
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?
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.} Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
{To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
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- Silent (144 instances)