Verses About
Silence

34 Verses About Silence from 15 Books

Judges 3:19

But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],

Job 29:21

Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Job 31:34

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, [and] went not out of the door?

Psalms 31:18

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Psalms 32:3

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

Psalms 35:22

[This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.

Psalms 39:2

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

Psalms 50:3

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

Psalms 50:21

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

Psalms 83:1

A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

Psalms 94:17

Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

Psalms 115:17

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Isaiah 15:1

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;

Isaiah 41:1

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

Isaiah 62:6

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.

Isaiah 65:6

Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 3:28

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence.

Habakkuk 2:20

But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Matthew 22:34

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

Acts 15:12

Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

Acts 21:40

And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto [them] in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

Acts 22:2

(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

Corinthians-1 14:28

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

Corinthians-1 14:34

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

Timothy-1 2:11

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Timothy-1 2:12

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Peter-1 2:15

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Revelations 8:1

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

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