Isaiah 26:14-18

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁴ The dead do not live;
departed spirits do not rise up.
Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them;
you have wiped out all memory of them.^(A)
15 You have added to the nation, Lord.^(B)
You have added to the nation; you are honored.
You have expanded all the borders of the land.^(C)
16 Lord, they went to you in their distress;^(D)
they poured out whispered prayers
because your discipline fell on them.^[a]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,^(E)
so we were before you, Lord.
¹⁸ We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;
we gave birth to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.