12 Lord, you establish peacek for us;

all that we have accomplished you have donel for us.

13 Lord our God, other lordsm besides you have ruled over us,

but your namen alone do we honor.o

14 They are now dead,p they live no more;

their spiritsq do not rise.

You punished them and brought them to ruin;r

you wiped out all memory of them.s

15 You have enlarged the nation, Lord;

you have enlarged the nation.t

You have gained glory for yourself;

you have extended all the bordersu of the land.

16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;v

when you disciplinedw them,

they could barely whisperx a prayer.b

17 As a pregnant woman about to give birthy

writhes and cries out in her pain,

so were we in your presence, Lord.

18 We were with child, we writhed in labor,

but we gave birthz to wind.

We have not brought salvationa to the earth,

and the people of the world have not come to life.b