Isaiah 26:14-18
Legacy Standard Bible
14 (A)The dead will not live; the [a]departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have (B)visited and destroyed them,
And You have made all remembrance of them perish.
15 (C)You have increased the nation, O Yahweh;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have (D)extended all the borders of the land.
16 O Yahweh, they visited You (E)in distress;
They [b]could only whisper a prayer;
Your chastening was upon them.
17 (F)As the [c]woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,
Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.
18 We were [d]with child, we writhed in labor;
We (G)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
And the (H)inhabitants of the world [e]were not born.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:14 Or shades
- Isaiah 26:16 Lit sound forth a whisper
- Isaiah 26:17 Or pregnant woman
- Isaiah 26:18 Or pregnant
- Isaiah 26:18 Lit had never fallen
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.
Footnotes
- 26:16 Hb obscure
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