They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a (A)day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; (B)children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

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13 (A)The pangs of childbirth come for him,
    but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
    (B)at the opening of the womb.

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Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?”
    says the Lord;
“shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?”
    says your God.

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17 (A)Like a pregnant woman
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs
    when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18     (B)we were pregnant, we writhed,
    but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
    and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

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15 and (A)call upon me in the day of trouble;
    I will (B)deliver you, and you shall (C)glorify me.”

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They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

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O Lord, be gracious to us; (A)we wait for you.
    Be our arm every morning,
    our salvation in the time of trouble.

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(A)For the Lord God of hosts has (B)a day
    of tumult and (C)trampling and (D)confusion
    in (E)the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
    and a shouting to the mountains.

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    (A)do not harden your hearts, as at (B)Meribah,
    as on the day at (C)Massah in the wilderness,

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15 When he (A)calls to me, I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble;
    I will rescue him and (B)honor him.

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(A)but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

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19 (A)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

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15 (A)I will return again to my place,
    until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
    and (B)in their distress earnestly seek me.

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

“Come, let us (C)return to the Lord;
    for (D)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and (E)he will bind us up.

Alas! (A)That day is so great
    (B)there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob;
    yet he shall be saved out of it.

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    (A)He will swallow up death forever;
and (B)the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
    and (C)the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
    (D)for the Lord has spoken.

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(A)The snares of death encompassed me;
    the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
    I suffered distress and anguish.
Then (B)I called on the name of the Lord:
    “O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”

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