Why — The people at length seem to bethink themselves, and thus to bespeak each other. Silent — Keep close within our walls.
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Jeremiah 8:14
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gallc to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.