¹ O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

¹ Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

²² Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

³ Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.

²³ Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast `us' not off for ever.

¹ Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

¹⁴ I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: `now' will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.