Because the storm was growing worse and worse, ¹  they said to him, “What should we do to you to make ²  the sea calm down ³  for us?”

Then he cried out to me, “Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me ¹  peace about the northland.” ² 

After ¹  the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So ²  they kept silent and told no one ³  at that time ⁴  anything of what they had seen.

When the commanding officer ¹  had given him permission, ²  Paul stood ³  on the steps and gestured ⁴  to the people with his hand. When they had become silent, ⁵  he addressed ⁶  them in Aramaic, ⁷ 

the women ¹  should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. ²  Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ¹  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ²  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ³  and he died.

When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, ¹  pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” He will respond, “Be quiet! Don’t invoke the Lord’s name!” ² 

(Now the man Moses was very humble, ¹  more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

So turn and leave ¹  in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!” ² 

That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper. ¹ 

The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

“If someone ¹  should attempt ²  a word with you, will you be impatient? ³  But who can refrain from speaking ⁴ ?

“Does the wild donkey ¹  bray ²  when it is near grass? ³  Or ⁴  does the ox low near its fodder? ⁵ 

“Therefore, ¹  I will not refrain my mouth; ²  I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain ³  in the bitterness of my soul.

And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected ¹  and will take your rest in safety.

“Refrain from talking ¹  with me so that ²  I may speak; then let come to me ³  what may. ⁴ 

Who ¹  will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. ²