8. Also, in the path of Your right-rulings, O יהוה, we have waited for You; the longing of our being is for Your Name and for the remembrance of You.
9. My being longs for You in the night, also, my spirit within me seeks You earnestly. For when Your right-rulings are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.
10. The wrong finds favour, yet he shall not learn righteousness; in the land of straightforwardness he acts perversely, and does not see the excellency of יהוה.
11. O יהוה, Your hand is high, they do not see. They see the ardour of the people and are ashamed; also, let the fire for Your adversaries consume them.
12. O יהוה, You establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works in us.
13. O יהוה our Elohim, other masters besides You have had rule over us; only in You do we make mention of Your Name.
14. The dead do not live; the departed spirits do not rise. Therefore You have visited and destroyed them, and made all their remembrance to perish.
15. You shall increase the nation, O יהוה, You shall increase the nation; You are esteemed; You shall expand all the borders of the land.
16. O יהוה, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them.
17. As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so shall we be before Your face, O יהוה.