12 Lord, You will establish peace for us,For You have also done all our works in us.
13 O Lord our God, masters besides YouHave had dominion over us;But by You only we make mention of Your name.
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.