'Quiet' in the Bible

And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.

Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God.

But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.

Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?

And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.

Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.

And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.

So all the people of the land were glad, and the town was quiet; and they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house.

But the people kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet;

So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.

And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for the Lord gave him rest on every side.

So all the people of the land were glad and the town was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death with the sword

So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.

For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:

Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;

If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?

Take note O Job, give ear to me; keep quiet, while I say what is in my mind.

If not, give attention to me, and keep quiet, and I will give you wisdom.

Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.

Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.

When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.

The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;

If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.

Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.

But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.

And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

So have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and at peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.

But have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and in peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.

O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.

How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.

About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.

And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.

And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:

The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.

But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.

Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.

And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.

And Jesus said to him sharply, Be quiet, and come out of him.

And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.

And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.

And some of them, turning in protest, gave him an order to be quiet: but he went on crying out all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.

But he kept quiet and said nothing. Again the high priest questioning him said, Are you the Christ, the son of the Holy One?

And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.