9. In the night I search for you;in the morning I earnestly seek you.For only when you come to judge the earthwill people learn what is right.
10. Your kindness to the wickeddoes not make them do good.Although others do right, the wicked keep doing wrongand take no notice of the lord’s majesty.
11. O lord, they pay no attention to your upraised fist.Show them your eagerness to defend your people.Then they will be ashamed.Let your fire consume your enemies.
12. lord, you will grant us peace;all we have accomplished is really from you.
13. O lord our God, others have ruled us,but you alone are the one we worship.
14. Those we served before are dead and gone.Their departed spirits will never return!You attacked them and destroyed them,and they are long forgotten.
15. O lord, you have made our nation great;yes, you have made us great.You have extended our borders,and we give you the glory!
16. lord, in distress we searched for you.We prayed beneath the burden of your discipline.
17. Just as a pregnant womanwrithes and cries out in pain as she gives birth,so were we in your presence, lord.