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.
19. Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.