Silenced

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

…like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.

The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORD’s burning anger.

The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

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

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

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

Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.

And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

…who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.