Psalm 83:1

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O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!

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To thee, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.

Thou hast seen, O Lord; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!

Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.

For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail, I will gasp and pant.

Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!

The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.