Study Desk

^(C1)The dead will not live, the ^(F1)departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have ^(C2)punished and destroyed them, And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.

^(C1)You have increased the nation, LORD, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have ^(C2)extended all the borders of the land.

LORD, they sought You ^(C1)in distress; They ^(F1)could only whisper a prayer, Your discipline was upon them.

^(C1)As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains; This is how we were before You, LORD.

We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We ^(C1)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were ^(C2)inhabitants of the world ^(F1)born.