Isaiah 26:16-18

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁶ Lord, people remember you
    when they are in trouble.
So because of your punishment,
    we called out to you.
¹⁷ Lord, because of you we were in pain,
    like a woman giving birth,
    who struggles and cries out when it is time.
¹⁸ But we struggled in pain for nothing.
    We gave birth only to wind.
We did nothing to save the land.
    No one was born to live in the world.