Psalms 39:2
I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased.
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- Job 32:19-20 : 19 Beholde, my belly is as the wine, whiche hath no vent, lyke the newe bottels that bruste. 20 Therfore will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.
- Ps 38:13-14 : 13 As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and I was as one that is dumbe who coulde not open his mouth. 14 I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth.
- Isa 53:7 : 7 He suffered violence, and was euyll intreated, and dyd not open his mouth: He shalbe led as a sheepe to be slayne, yet shall he be as styll as a lambe before the shearer, and not open his mouth.
- Matt 7:6 : 6 Geue not that which is holy, vnto dogges, neyther caste ye your pearles before swyne, lest they treade them vnder their feete, and turning agayne, all to rent you.
- Matt 27:12-14 : 12 And when he was accused of the chiefe priestes and elders, he aunswered nothyng. 13 Then sayth Pilate vnto him: hearest thou not how many witnesses they lay agaynst thee? 14 And he aunswered hym to neuer a worde: insomuch, that the deputie marueyled greatly.
- Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speake that, which we haue seene and hearde.
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- Ps 39:8-103 verses82%
8 Delyuer me from all my offences: and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolishe.
9 I became dumbe, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doyng.
10 Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande.
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1 To the chiefe musition Ieduthun, a psalme of Dauid. I sayde to my selfe I wyll take heede to my wayes, that I offende not in my tongue: I wyll kepe my mouth as it were with a brydell, whylest the vngodly is in my syght.
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3 My heart was hotte within me, and whyle I was thus musyng the fire kyndled: and at the last I spake with my tongue.
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3 For whyle I helde my tongue: my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring.
- Ps 38:13-142 verses78%
13 As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and I was as one that is dumbe who coulde not open his mouth.
14 I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth.
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15 What shall I say? The Lorde hath made a promise to me, yea and he hym selfe hath perfourmed it: I shall therefore so long as I lyue remember this bitternesse of my lyfe.
- Job 29:9-102 verses74%
9 The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth:
10 The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.
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19 What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.
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34 Though I coulde haue made afeard a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families dyd feare me: so I kept scilence, and went not out of the doore.
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21 Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell.
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31 Marke wel O Iob, and heare me: hold thee still, and I will speake.
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17 Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght.
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9 Wherefore I thought from hencefoorth not to speake of hym, nor to preache any more in his name: but the worde of the Lorde was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, whiche when I woulde haue stopped, I might not.
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28 He sitteth alone, he holdeth hym styll, because he hath taken the Lordes yoke vpon hym.
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13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest,
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6 For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?
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2 Nay I haue restrayned my soule, and kept it lowe like a chylde that is weaned from his mother: yea my soule is within me as a weaned chylde.
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3 I called to remembraunce God, and I was disquieted: I conferred with my selfe, and my spirite was wrapped in pensiuenesse. Selah.
4 Thou dydst kepe the watche of mine eies: I was amased & coulde not speake.
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8 I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart.
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1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid. Holde not thy tongue: O thou the Lorde of my prayse.
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16 Therfore I considered howe I might vnderstande this: but it was to paynefull in myne eyes.
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27 If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, and comfort my selfe:
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11 Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde.
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28 Yea, a very foole when he holdeth his tongue is counted wise: and he that stoppeth his lippes is esteemed prudent.
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40 I was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes.
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33 If thou hast nothing, then heare me, and hold thy tongue, and I shall teache thee wysdome.
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24 Teache me, and I will hold my tong: and wherin I haue erred; cause me to vnderstande.
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13 Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.
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28 I went mourning without heate, I stoode vp in the congregation, & communed with them.
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3 My mouth shall vtter wisdome: the cogitations of myne heart wyll bryng foorth knowledge.
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26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.
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5 Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.
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15 Now whe he had spoken these words vnto me, I cast downe my head to the grounde, and held my tongue.
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18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.
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21 Ueryly thus was my heart inflamed: thus was my reynes pricked.
22 So foolishe was I and voyde of vnderstanding: I was euen a bruite beast before thee.
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4 And my spirite is ouerwhelmed within me: and my heart is desolate in the midst of me.
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21 These thynges hast thou done and I helde my tongue, thou thoughtest that I am euen such a one as thou thy selfe art: but I wyll reproue thee, and I wyll set foorth in order before thine eyes all that thou hast done.
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17 He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.
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2 Take heede vnto me, and heare me: I can not choose but mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse.
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20 Shall it be tolde him what I saye? Shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?
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4 Beholde, I am vyle, what shall I aunswere thee, therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth.
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1 At this also my heart is astonied, and moued out of his place.
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16 When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stoode still and aunswered no more:)
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10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.