Isaiah 26:14-18

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¹⁴ ·Those masters are now dead [^LThey are dead, never to live];
    their ·ghosts [spirits] will not rise from death.
You punished and destroyed them
    and erased any memory of them.
¹⁵ Lord, you ·multiplied the number of your people [enlarged/made great the nation];
    you ·multiplied them [enlarged/made great the nation] and brought ·honor [glory] to yourself.
You ·widened [enlarged; extended] the borders of the land.
¹⁶ Lord, people ·remember [seek; come to] you when they are in trouble;
    they ·say quiet prayers to you [or utter incantations] when you punish them.
¹⁷ Lord, ·when we are with you [or because of you],
    we are like a woman giving birth to a baby;
    she cries and has pain from the birth.
¹⁸ ·In the same way [^LWe were pregnant/conceived], we ·had pain [writhed; strained].
    We gave birth, but only to wind.
We ·don’t bring [or can’t bring; haven’t brought] salvation to the ·land [earth]
    ·or given birth to new people for the world [^Lnor have the inhabitants of the earth fallen].