16. Lord, in trouble they have visited you.They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
17. Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,is in pain and cries out in her pangs;so we have been before you, Lord.
18. We have been with child.We have been in pain.We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.We have not worked any deliverance in the earth;neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19. Your dead shall live.My dead bodies shall arise.Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;for your dew is like the dew of herbs,and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.