17 x Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O Lord 18 x we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. 15 u But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation you are glorified v you have enlarged all the borders of the land.ġ6 O Lord, w in distress they sought you they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them. 14 They are dead, they will not live they are shades, they will not arise to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them. 13 O Lord our God, s other lords besides you have ruled over us, t but your name alone we bring to remembrance. 12 O Lord, you will ordain r peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works. Let q the fire for your adversaries consume them. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. 11 O Lord, o your hand is lifted up, but p they do not see it. 10 n If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the Lord. m For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 9 My soul yearns for you in the night my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. 8 In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you l your name and l remembrance are the desire of our soul. 6 The foot tramples it, the feet of j the poor, the steps of j the needy."ħ The path of the righteous is level k you make level the way of the righteous. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
5 i For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. 4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. 3 h You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
2 g Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. 1 In that day e this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city he sets up f salvation as walls and bulwarks.