Study Desk

Dead ones do not live; departed spirits do not rise; because of this You visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

You have added to the nation, Jehovah; You have added to the nation, You are glorified; You have put far off all the ends of the land.

Jehovah, they visited You in distress; they poured out a whisper; Your chastening was to them.

As a woman with child draws near to bear, she writhes and cries out in her pangs. So are we before You, Jehovah.

We conceived; we writhe; as it were, we gave birth to wind. We have not worked salvation for the earth; and those living in the world have not fallen.