A gentle response ¹  turns away anger, but a harsh word ²  stirs up wrath. ³ 

But what was the divine response ¹  to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people ²  who have not bent the knee to Baal.” ³ 

When Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied. ¹ 

Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, ¹  but there was no sound, no answer, and no response. ² 

Then Job continued ²  his speech:

So ¹  they glorified God because of me. ² 

I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense. ¹ 

Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ¹  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

Abram believed ¹  the Lord, and the Lord ²  considered his response of faith ³  as proof of genuine loyalty. ⁴ 

The Lord ¹  was pleased that Solomon made this request. ² 

“They are dismayed ²  and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say. ³ 

Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind ¹  to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.

For this reason ¹  I kneel ²  before the Father, ³ 

“If ¹  I cry out, ²  ‘Violence!’ ³  I receive no answer; ⁴  I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart. ¹ 

A servant ¹  cannot be corrected ²  by words, for although ³  he understands, there is no answer. ⁴ 

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Miriam sang in response ¹  to them, “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.” ² 

Each Sabbath day ¹  Aaron ²  must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion ³  is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.