KEEP NOT silence, O God; hold not Your peace or be still, O God.
UNTO YOU do I cry, O Lord my Rock, be not deaf and silent to me, lest, if You be silent to me, I become like those going down to the pit [the grave].
You have seen this, O Lord; keep not silence! O Lord, be not far from me!
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever!
THE MIGHTY One, God, the Lord, speaks and calls the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Our God comes and does not keep silence; a fire devours before Him, and round about Him a mighty tempest rages.
[Thus says the Lord] I have for a long time held My peace, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry out like a woman in travail, I will gasp and pant together.