Isaiah 26:12-19

Amplified Bible

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Lord, You will establish peace for us,
Since You have also performed for us all that we have done.
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O Lord our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us;
But through You alone we confess Your name.
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The [wicked] dead will not live [again], the spirits of the dead will not rise and return;
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And You have wiped out every memory of them [every trace of them].
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You have increased the nation, O Lord;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have extended all the borders of the land.
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O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They managed only a prayerful whisper
When Your discipline was upon them.
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As a woman with child approaches the time to give birth,
She is in pain and struggles and cries out in her labor,
So we were before You, O Lord.
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We have been with child, we have twisted and struggled in labor;
We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
Nor were inhabitants of the world ^[a]born.
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Your dead will live;
^[b]Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.^(A)