12 Bible Verses about Under One's Breath

“Before I had finished praying silently, there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her: Please let me have a drink.

While she continued praying in the Lord’s presence, Eli watched her lips. Hannah was praying silently, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. Eli thought she was drunk

Lord, they went to You in their distress;
they poured out whispered prayers
because Your discipline fell on them.

When David saw that his servants were whispering to each other, he guessed that the baby was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the baby dead?”

“He is dead,” they replied.

These are but the fringes of His ways;
how faint is the word we hear of Him!
Who can understand His mighty thunder?

therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper, proclaim on the housetops.

Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

A contrary man spreads conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

All who hate me whisper together about me;
they plan to harm me.

For I have heard the gossip of many people,
“Terror is on every side!
Report him; let’s report him!”
Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived
so that we might prevail against him
and take our vengeance on him.”