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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.

But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.