13. Lord our God, other masters besides you have ruled us,but we will profess your name alone.
14. The dead don’t live; ghosts don’t rise.Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them,and abolished all memory of them.
15. You’ve enlarged the nation, Lord.You’ve enlarged the nation; you are glorified.You’ve expanded all the land’s boundaries.
16. Lord, in distress they sought you out;they poured out prayers to you when you disciplined them.
17. As a pregnant woman close to childbirth is in labor pains,crying out in her pangs,so were we because of you, Lord.
18. We were pregnant, we writhed,but we gave birth to wind.We have achieved no victories on earth;the inhabitants of the earth never fall.
19. Your dead will live, their corpses will rise,and those who dwell in the dust will shout for joy.Your shadow is a shadow of light,but you will bring down the ghosts into the underworld.
20. Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you.Take cover, for in a little while the fury will be over.
21. Look! The Lord is going out from his placeto bring the iniquity of the ruler of the earth down upon him.The earth will uncover its bloodand will conceal its slain no longer.