Quotes About Silence

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

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.

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.

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ëWho was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?

No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”

While he was speaking these words to me, I set my face toward the ground and became speechless.

Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?

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

And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.