Isaiah 26:14-18

American Standard Version

^14 [a]They are dead, they shall not live; they are ^[b]deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish. ¹⁵ Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; ^[c]thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

¹⁶ Jehovah, in trouble have they ^[d]visited thee; they poured out a ^[e]prayer when thy chastening was upon them. ¹⁷ Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been ^[f]before thee, O Jehovah. ¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; ^[g]neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.