Bible Verses About Silence

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

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were assembled about him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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;

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

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,

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

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified 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.

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.

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.

[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?

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

And when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand to the people. And when there was made entire silence, he spoke to [them] in the Hebrew language, saying,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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

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

Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in season; its leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he doeth shall prosper.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said to me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the heathen [for] thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they multiplied that trouble me? many [are] they that rise up against me.