Isaiah 26:14-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 The dead do not live;
shades do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them
and wiped out all memory of them.(A)
15 But you have increased the nation, O Lord;
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
you have enlarged all the borders of the land.(B)
16 O Lord, in distress they sought you;
they poured out a prayer[a]
when your chastening was on them.(C)
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;(D)
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.(E)
Footnotes
- 26.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 26:14-18
New Living Translation
14 Those we served before are dead and gone.
Their departed spirits will never return!
You attacked them and destroyed them,
and they are long forgotten.
15 O Lord, you have made our nation great;
yes, you have made us great.
You have extended our borders,
and we give you the glory!
16 Lord, in distress we searched for you.
We prayed beneath the burden of your discipline.
17 Just as a pregnant woman
writhes and cries out in pain as she gives birth,
so were we in your presence, Lord.
18 We, too, writhe in agony,
but nothing comes of our suffering.
We have not given salvation to the earth,
nor brought life into the world.
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