No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.

Don't set into motion what needs to remain still.

Imagine the difference this could make with not setting into motion what needs to remain still.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

Quiet is a think tank of the soul. Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

The saints, however, are in silence and patience and in hope (spes), not in physical activity (res), like those people, for they are saved by the name of the Lord. This does not come about except in hope and patience and silence, whereas the ungodly seek to be saved in bustle and physical activity (res), indeed by the vanity of physical activity.

I await Your salvation, O LORD.

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.

“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.