12. Lord, You will ordain peace for us,for You also have done all our works for us.
13. O Lord our God, other lords besides You have had dominion over us,but through You alone we confess Your name.
14. The dead shall not live;the departed spirits shall not rise.Therefore, You have punished and destroyed themand made all remembrance of them to perish.
15. You have increased the nation, O Lord,You have increased the nation;You are glorified;You have extended all the borders of the land.
16. Lord, in trouble they have sought You;they poured out a prayerwhen Your chastening was on them.
17. Like a woman with child, who is in pain and cries out in her pangswhen she draws near the time of her delivery,so have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
18. We have been with child, we have been in pain,we have, as it were, brought forth wind;we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,nor were the inhabitants of the world born.