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Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
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Acts 4:20
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
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Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
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Esther 4:13-14
Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther:“ Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
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1 Samuel 25 24-1 Samuel 25 44
She fell at his feet, and said,“ On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”David said to Abigail,“ Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her,“ Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,“ Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying,“ David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said,“ Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
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Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
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Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
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Proverbs 24:11-12
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!If you say,“ Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
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Job 32:4-22
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered,“ I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.I said,‘ Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.Therefore I said,‘ Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’“ Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.Beware lest you say,‘ We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.“ They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion.For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.
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Genesis 37:29
Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
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Genesis 44:34
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?— lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
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1 Samuel 19 4-1 Samuel 19 5
Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him,“ Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
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2 Samuel 1 11
Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.
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Genesis 44:18
Then Judah came near to him, and said,“ Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
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Jeremiah 8:14
“ Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
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Genesis 37:34
Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
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2 Kings 6 30
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.
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Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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2 Kings 5 7
When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said,“ Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
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Isaiah 36:21
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was,“ Don’t answer him.”
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1 Kings 21 27
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
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2 Samuel 3 31
David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him,“ Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.
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Joel 2:13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
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Jeremiah 36:24
The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.
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Luke 19:37-40
As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,saying,“ Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him,“ Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”He answered them,“ I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”
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Acts 9:39
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
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Amos 8:3
The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.“ The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
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Job 2:13
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.