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Isaiah 26:14-18
New Century Version
Isaiah 26:14-18
New Century Version
14 Those masters are now dead;
their ghosts 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;
you multiplied them and brought honor to yourself.
You made the borders of the land wide.
16 Lord, people remember you when they are in trouble;
they say quiet prayers to you when you punish them.
17 Lord, when we are with you,
we are like a woman giving birth to a baby;
she cries and has pain from the birth.
18 In the same way, we had pain.
We gave birth, but only to wind.
We don’t bring salvation to the land
or make new people for the world.
Isaiah 26:14-18
New International Version
Isaiah 26:14-18
New International Version
14 They are now dead,(A) they live no more;
their spirits(B) do not rise.
You punished them and brought them to ruin;(C)
you wiped out all memory of them.(D)
15 You have enlarged the nation, Lord;
you have enlarged the nation.(E)
You have gained glory for yourself;
you have extended all the borders(F) of the land.
16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;(G)
when you disciplined(H) them,
they could barely whisper(I) a prayer.[a]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth(J)
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(K) to wind.
We have not brought salvation(L) to the earth,
and the people of the world have not come to life.(M)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
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