A song: a psalm of Asaph.
Of David. To You, Adonai, I call— my Rock, do not be deaf to me. If You were silent to me, I would become like those going down to the Pit.
You have seen it, Adonai—be not silent! Adonai, be not far from me.
But for Your sake we are slain all day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.
A psalm of Asaph. God, Elohim Adonai has spoken and summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire is devouring before Him, and it storms around Him mightily.
“I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I groan, gasping and panting at once.
