Isaiah 26:16-19
World English Bible
16 Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you.
They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
17 Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery,
is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
so we have been before you, Yahweh.
18 We have been with child.
We have been in pain.
We gave birth, it seems, only to wind.
We have not worked any deliverance in the earth;
neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Your dead shall live.
My dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the dew of herbs,
and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Isaiah 26:16-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 O Lord, in distress they sought you;
they poured out a prayer[a]
when your chastening was on them.(A)
17 Like a woman with child
about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pain,
so were we because of you, O Lord;(B)
18 we were with child; we writhed,
but we gave birth only to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and no one is born to inhabit the world.(C)
19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[b] shall rise.
Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy![c]
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.[d](D)
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