13 Yahweh our God, lords other than You have ruled over us,but we remember Your name alone.
14 The dead do not live;departed spirits do not rise up.Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them;You have wiped out all memory of them.
15 You have added to the nation, Lord. You have added to the nation; You are honored.You have expanded all the borders of the land.
16 Lord, they went to You in their distress; they poured out whispered prayersbecause Your discipline fell on them.
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birthwrithes and cries out in her pains, so we were before You, Lord.
18 We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;we gave birth to wind.We have won no victories on earth,and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.
19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!For you will be covered with the morning dew, and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.