Lexicon :: Strong's H1826 - dāmam

Terror and dread fall on them;

Because of the greatness of Your arm they are as still as a stone;

Until Your people pass by and [into Canaan], O LORD,

Until the people pass by whom You have purchased.

‘I will be treated as holy by those who approach Me,

And before all the people I will be honored.’”

So Aaron, therefore, said nothing.

Then Joshua spoke to the LORD on the day when the LORD handed over the Amorites to the sons of Israel, and Joshua said in the sight of Israel,

“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,

And moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”

“He guards the feet of His godly (faithful) ones,

But the wicked ones are silenced and perish in darkness;

For a man shall not prevail by might.

“They listened to me and waited

And kept silent for my counsel.

“I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest;

Days of affliction come to meet me.

Because I feared the great multitude,

And the contempt of families terrified me,

So that I kept silence and did not acknowledge my sin and did not go out of the door?

Tremble [with anger or fear], and do not sin;

Meditate in your heart upon your bed and be still [reflect on your sin and repent of your rebellion]. Selah.

That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.

O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on You;

Let the wicked (godless) be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];

The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;

They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.

Be still before the LORD; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him;

Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way,

Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

For God alone my soul waits in silence and quietly submits to Him,

For my hope is from Him.

Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul;

Like a weaned child [resting] with his mother,

My soul is like a weaned child within me [composed and freed from discontent].

Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,

You [fn]merchants of Sidon;

[fn]Your messengers crossed the sea

Why are we sitting still [the people wonder]?

Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities

And let us die there,

For the LORD our God has decreed our ruin

And given us bitter and poisonous water to drink,

Because we have sinned against the LORD.

And the peaceful folds are devastated and made silent

Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

“O you sword of the LORD,

How long will it be before you are quiet?

Put yourself into your sheath;

Rest and be still.

“The glory of Moab is no more;

In [fn]Heshbon they planned evil against her,

Saying, ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’

You also, O [city of] Madmen, shall be silenced;

The sword will pursue you.

“Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets,

And all her men of war will be destroyed in that day,” says the LORD of hosts.

“Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,

And all her soldiers will be destroyed on that day,” says the LORD.

Flee out of Babylon,

Let every one of you save his life!

Do not be destroyed in her punishment,

For this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance;

He is going to pay her what she has earned.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion

Sit on the ground keeping silent;

They have thrown dust on their heads,

They have covered themselves with sackcloth.

The virgins of Jerusalem

Have bowed their heads to the ground.

Their hearts cried out to the Lord.

“O wall of the Daughter of Zion,

Let your tears run down like a river day and night;

Give yourself no relief,

Let your eyes have no rest.

Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet,

Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit].

Therefore, he who is prudent and has insight will keep silent at such a [corrupt and evil] time, for it is an evil time [when people will not listen to truth and will disregard those of good character].