14. They are dead, they will not live;they are shades, they will not arise;to that end you have visited them with destructionand wiped out all remembrance of them.
15. But you have increased the nation, O Lord,you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16. O Lord, in distress they sought you;they poured out a whispered prayerwhen your discipline was upon them.
17. Like a pregnant womanwho writhes and cries out in her pangswhen she is near to giving birth,so were we because of you, O Lord;
18. we were pregnant, we writhed,but we have given birth to wind.We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
19. Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!For your dew is a dew of light,and the earth will give birth to the dead.
20. Come, my people, enter your chambers,and shut your doors behind you;hide yourselves for a little whileuntil the fury has passed by.