¹ Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

¹ Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

²² This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

³ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be 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 the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

¹⁴ I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.