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18 We have been with child, we have been in pain,
    we have, as it were, brought forth wind;
we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
    nor were the inhabitants of the world born.

19 Your dead shall live,
    their corpses shall arise.
Awake and sing,
    you who dwell in dust,
for your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
    and the earth shall give birth to the departed spirits.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide for a little while
    until the indignation is over.

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