15 aYou have increased the nation, O Yahweh;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have bextended all the borders of the land.
16 O Yahweh, they visited You ain distress;
They could only whisper a prayer;
Your chastening was upon them.
17 aAs the woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,
Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.
18 We were with child, we writhed in labor;
We agave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
And the binhabitants of the world were not born.