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…and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.

On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”

He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.

Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.

I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

…because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

…that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever.

O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them lie silent in Sheol.

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.

Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORD’s burning anger.

‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.

Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.

Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”

Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.