16 Lord, qin trouble they have visited You,

They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

17 As ra woman with child

Is in pain and cries out in her 9pangs,

When she draws near the time of her delivery,

So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain;

We have, as it were, 1brought forth wind;

We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,

Nor have sthe inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 tYour dead shall live;

Together with 2my dead body they shall arise.

uAwake and sing, you who dwell in dust;

For your dew is like the dew of herbs,

And the earth shall cast out the dead.