Isaiah 26:14-18

English Standard Version

¹⁴They are dead, they will not live;
    they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
    and wiped out all remembrance of them.
¹⁵^(A)But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
    you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
    ^(B)you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

¹⁶O Lord, ^(C)in distress they sought you;
    they poured out a whispered prayer
    when your discipline was upon them.
¹⁷^(D)Like a pregnant woman
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs
    when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
¹⁸    ^(E)we were pregnant, we writhed,
    but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
    and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.