Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.

silence

Isaiah 49:1 Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name.

Psalm 46:10 Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth.

Habakkuk 2:20 But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Zechariah 2:13 Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is risen up out of his holy habitation.

let the people

Isaiah 41:6,7,21,22 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. . . .

Isaiah 8:9,10 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome. . . .

Job 38:3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Job 40:7 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.

Joel 3:10,11 Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong. . . .

let us

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Job 23:3-7 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Job 31:35,36 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, . . .

Job 40:8-10 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified? . . .

Micah 6:1-3 Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. . . .