Study Desk

They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.

You have enlarged the nation, O LORD ; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended all the borders of the land.

LORD , they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.

As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O LORD .

We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.