¹³ Pains as of a woman in childbirth^(A) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time^(B) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.^(C)

⁹ Do I bring to the moment of birth^(A)
    and not give delivery?” says the Lord.
“Do I close up the womb
    when I bring to delivery?” says your God.

¹⁷ As a pregnant woman about to give birth^(A)
    writhes and cries out in her pain,
    so were we in your presence, Lord.
¹⁸ We were with child, we writhed in labor,
    but we gave birth^(B) to wind.
We have not brought salvation^(C) to the earth,
    and the people of the world have not come to life.^(D)

¹⁵ and call^(A) on me in the day of trouble;^(B)
    I will deliver^(C) you, and you will honor^(D) me.”

² Lord, be gracious^(A) to us;
    we long for you.
Be our strength^(B) every morning,
    our salvation^(C) in time of distress.^(D)

⁵ The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day^(A)
    of tumult and trampling^(B) and terror^(C)
    in the Valley of Vision,^(D)
a day of battering down walls^(E)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

⁸ “Do not harden your hearts^(A) as you did at Meribah,^[a](B)
    as you did that day at Massah^[b] in the wilderness,^(C)