10. Evil people will not learn to do good, even if you show them only kindness. They will still do wrong, even if they live in a good world. They never see the Lord’S greatness.
11. Lord, your arm is raised to punish them, but they don’t see it. Show them how strong your love is for your people. Then those who are evil will be ashamed. Yes, your fire will destroy your enemies.
12. Lord, you have succeeded in doing everything we tried to do, so give us peace.
13. Lord, you are our God, but in the past, we followed other lords. We belonged to other masters, but now we want people to remember only one name—yours.
14. Those dead lords will not come to life. Those ghosts will not rise from death. You decided to destroy them, and you destroyed everything that makes us think about them.
15. Lord, you have helped the nation you love. You made our nation grow and brought honor to yourself.
16. Lord, people remember you when they are in trouble. So because of your punishment, we called out to you.
17. Lord, because of you we were in pain, like a woman giving birth, who struggles and cries out when it is time.
18. But we struggled in pain for nothing. We gave birth only to wind. We did nothing to save the land. No one was born to live in the world.
19. But the Lord says, “Your people have died, but they will live again. The bodies of my people will rise from death. Dead people in the ground, stand and be happy! The dew covering you is like the dew sparkling in the light of a new day. It shows that a new time is coming, when the earth will give birth to the dead who are in it.”
20. My people, go into your rooms and lock your doors. Hide in there for a short time until God’s anger is finished.