¹ A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.

¹ By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

²² Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, Be not silent, O Lord -- be not far from me,

³ Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

²³ Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

¹ To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent,

² For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

¹⁴ I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow up together.