12 Lord, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all our works.
13 O Lord our God, other masters besides You have ruled us; But through You alone we confess Your name.
14 The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.
15 You have increased the nation, O Lord, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.
16 O Lord, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your chastening was upon them.
17 As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains, Thus were we before You, O Lord.
18 We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.