14. They are dead, they will not live;They are deceased, they will not rise.Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,And made all their memory to perish.
15. You have increased the nation, O Lord,You have increased the nation;You are glorified;You have expanded all the borders of the land.
16. Lord, in trouble they have visited You,They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
17. As a woman with childIs in pain and cries out in her pangs,When 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 have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19. Your dead shall live;Together with my dead body they shall arise.Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;For your dew is like the dew of herbs,And the earth shall cast out the dead.
20. Come, my people, enter your chambers,And shut your doors behind you;Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment,Until the indignation is past.
21. For behold, the Lord comes out of His placeTo punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;The earth will also disclose her blood,And will no more cover her slain.