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^(ae)You have increased the nation, O Lord , You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have ^(af)extended all the borders of the land.

O Lord , they sought You ^(ag)in distress; They ^[k]could only whisper a prayer, Your chastening was upon them.

^(ah)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 .

We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We ^(ai)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were ^(aj)inhabitants of the world ^[l]born.

Your ^(ak)dead will live; ^[m]Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, ^(al)awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the ^[n]dawn, And the earth will ^[o]give birth to the ^[p]departed spirits.