Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;
And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”
If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.
And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.
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