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.

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.

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

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.

so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”

Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

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

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

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.”