10. Evil people will not learn to do goodeven if you show them kindness.They will continue doing evil, even if they live in a good world;they never see the Lord’s greatness.
11. Lord, you are ready to punish those people,but they do not see that.Show them your strong love for your people.Then those who are evil will be ashamed.Burn them in the fireyou have prepared for your enemies.
12. Lord, all our success is because of what you have done,so give us peace.
13. Lord, our God, other masters besides you have ruled us,but we honor only you.
14. Those masters are now dead;their ghosts will not rise from death.You punished and destroyed themand erased any memory of them.
15. Lord, you multiplied the number of your people;you multiplied them and brought honor to yourself.You made the borders of the land wide.
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 landor make new people for the world.
19. Your people have died, but they will live again;their bodies will rise from death.You who lie in the ground,wake up and be happy!The dew covering you is like the dew of a new day;the ground will give birth to the dead.
20. My people, go into your roomsand shut your doors behind you.Hide in your rooms for a short timeuntil God’s anger is finished.
21. The Lord will leave his placeto 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.