Isaiah 26:14-18

New American Standard Bible

^14 (A)The dead will not live, the ^[a]departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have ^(B)punished and destroyed them,
And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.
^15 (C)You have increased the nation, Lord,
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have ^(D)extended all the borders of the land.
¹⁶ Lord, they sought You ^(E)in distress;
They ^[b]could only whisper a prayer,
Your discipline was upon them.
^17 (F)As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her labor pains;
This is how we were before You, Lord.
¹⁸ We were pregnant, we writhed in labor,
We ^(G)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,
Nor were ^(H)inhabitants of the world ^[c]born.