Isaiah 26:14-18

Legacy Standard Bible

^14 (A)The dead will not live; the ^[a]departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have ^(B)visited and destroyed them,
And You have made all remembrance of them perish.
^15 (C)You have increased the nation, O Yahweh;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have ^(D)extended all the borders of the land.
¹⁶ O Yahweh, they visited You ^(E)in distress;
They ^[b]could only whisper a prayer;
Your chastening was upon them.
^17 (F)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 ^(G)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
And the ^(H)inhabitants of the world ^[e]were not born.