Bible Verses About Silence in Grief

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.

These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

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.

My eye is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies.

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.

A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

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.

Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

That this will be no grief to thee, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

[Then] whatever prayer, [or] whatever supplication shall be made by any man, or by all the people of Israel, when every one shall know his own calamity, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.

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?

For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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;

In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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.

He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

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,

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and devastation is heard in her; before me continually [are] grief and wounds.

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.

Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

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.

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

[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.