'Shut' in the Bible

“A snare seizes him by the heel,And a trap snaps shut on him.

Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up!

He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

High they were for a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all others they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

“[Crush and] hide them in the dust together;Shut them up in the hidden place [the house of death].

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

They have closed their unfeeling heart [to kindness and compassion];With their mouths they speak proudly and make presumptuous claims.

A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

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

I have brought good tidings [of] righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, {you surely know that}.

Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

But the king will rejoice in God;all who swear by Him will boast,for the mouths of liars will be shut.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones,And their flocks and herds to thunderbolts.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

The upright see it and rejoice, but the mouth of an evil person is shut.

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

You have enclosed me behind and before,And [You have] placed Your hand upon me.

Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

Even a fool is thought to be wise when he remains silent; he is thought to be prudent when he keeps his mouth shut.

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

For the Lord has poured out on youan overwhelming urge to sleep;He has shut your eyes—the prophets,and covered your heads—the seers.

And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:

And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?

But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:

Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

The Lord hath cast off His altar, He hath rejected His sanctuary, He hath shut up into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces, A noise they have made in the house of Jehovah Like a day of appointment.

Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.

You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"

Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.

And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.

He who is far away will come to his death by disease; he who is near will be put to the sword; he who is shut up will come to his death through need of food; and I will give full effect to my passion against them.

Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.

And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.

In that day your mouth will be open to him who has got away safe, and you will say words to him and your lips will no longer be shut: so you will be a sign to them and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "On the day that it descended into Sheol, I shut down its water supplies, covered over its deep water, and shut down its rivers. As a result its abundant water sources dried up, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for it. All the trees of the field wilted because of it.

Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

And he took me out into the outer square and made me go by the four angles of the square; and I saw that in every angle of the open square there was a space shut in.

My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

'Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.

The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.

Does a bird fall into a snare on the ground without any bait in the trap? Will a trap snap shut when there is nothing to catch?