16. Lord, people remember you when they are in trouble.They say quiet prayers to you when you punish them.
17. Lord, when we are with you,we are like a woman giving birth to a baby.She cries and has pain from the birth.
18. In the same way, we had pain.We gave birth, but only to wind.We don’t bring salvation to the land.We don’t make new people for the world.
19. Your people have died, but they will live again.Their bodies will rise from death.Dead people in the ground,get up and be happy!The dew covering you is like the dew of a new day.The ground will give birth to the dead buried in it.
20. My people, go into your rooms.Shut your doors behind you.Hide in your rooms for a short time.Hide until God’s anger is finished.
21. The Lord will leave his place.He will punish the people of the world for their sins.The earth will show the blood of the people who have been killed.It will not cover the dead any longer.