'Silence' in the Bible

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

Thou hast seen it, Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David: a Song.} Praise waiteth for thee in silence, O God, in Zion; and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

{A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:

If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into silence;