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15 Our nation has grown
    because of you, our Lord.
We have more land than before,
    and you are honored.

The Lord Gives Life to the Dead

16 When you punished our people,
they turned and prayed
    to you, our Lord.[a]
17 Because of what you did to us,
we suffered like a woman
    about to give birth.

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Footnotes

  1. 26.16 Lord: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 16.

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