'Silent' in the Bible
The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
Then they said one to another, "We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household."
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.
"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,
God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."
"Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let's meet together for judgment.
"I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"
Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!"