“I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.

In light of all this, how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,

“For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch.”

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don’t be silent!

Whom are you worried about? Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully and not remember me or think about me? Because I have been silent for so long, you are not afraid of me.