12. Adonai, You will establish shalom for us, for all our works You have done for us.
13. Adonai Eloheinu, other lords beside You have had dominion over us, but we remember Your Name alone.
14. The dead do not live— dead souls do not rise. Thus You punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.
15. You have increased the nation, Adonai, You have increased the nation. You are glorified as You have expanded all the borders of the land.
16. Adonai, they sought You in distress, they poured out a whispered prayer when Your discipline was upon them.
17. As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so we were before You, Adonai.
18. We have been with child, we have been in pain, yet we gave birth to wind. We are accomplishing no deliverance for the earth, nor are inhabitants of the world coming to life.