Silence prevailed (reigned)

There was complete silence.

("And they shall sing the songs of the temple in that day, saith the Lord GOD, the multitude of the dead in every place, he shall cast out the slain" - Amos 8:3, and so on: "And with a scarlet fire, even all the fat of the sea shall be burned,/ The slain shall be cast out round about, and the fat of the fat shall be devoured" - Shaul Tchernikhovsky/ Haravot, and so on: "The slain shall be cast out then near the buyers, and I will say, 'They shall turn away from him.'" "The Path" - H. Baer/ Feathers, 106)

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