12 Bible Verses about God Being Silent
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These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
Will you restrain yourself at these things, O LORD? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--
For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.
Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?
The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.
To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
