9. At night I long for you with my whole being;my spirit within me watches for you.When your judgments are at work in the earth,those living in the world learn righteousness.
10. When the wicked are favored, they don’t learn righteousness;even among those who do right they do wrong,and they fail to see the Lord’s majesty.
11. Lord, your hand is lifted up,but they don’t see.Let them see and shrink back because of your zeal for your people;your burning anger that consumes your enemies.
12. Lord, grant us peace,because all that we have done has been your doing.
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.