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Isaiah 26:16-18
The Message
Isaiah 26:16-18
The Message
16-18 O God, they begged you for help when they were in trouble,
when your discipline was so heavy
they could barely whisper a prayer.
Like a woman having a baby,
writhing in distress, screaming her pain
as the baby is being born,
That’s how we were because of you, O God.
We were pregnant full-term.
We writhed in labor but bore no baby.
We gave birth to wind.
Nothing came of our labor.
We produced nothing living.
We couldn’t save the world.
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
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