Isaiah 26:12-19

Legacy Standard Bible

¹² Yahweh, You will establish ^(A)peace for us,
Since You have also performed for us all our works.
¹³ O Yahweh our God, ^(B)other masters besides You have ruled us;
But through You alone we ^(C)bring Your name to remembrance.
^14 (D)The dead will not live; the ^[a]departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have ^(E)visited and destroyed them,
And You have made all remembrance of them perish.
^15 (F)You have increased the nation, O Yahweh;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have ^(G)extended all the borders of the land.
¹⁶ O Yahweh, they visited You ^(H)in distress;
They ^[b]could only whisper a prayer;
Your chastening was upon them.
^17 (I)As the ^[c]woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,
Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.
¹⁸ We were ^[d]with child, we writhed in labor;
We ^(J)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
And the ^(K)inhabitants of the world ^[e]were not born.
¹⁹ Your ^(L)dead will live;
^[f]Their corpses will rise.
You who dwell in the dust, ^(M)awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the ^[g]dawn,
And the earth will ^[h]give birth to the ^[i]departed spirits.