12O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
13O LORD our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us, but Your name alone do we confess.
14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
15You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.
16O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
17As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.
18We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.