Isaiah 26:16-19

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ Lord, people ·remember [seek; come to] you when they are in trouble;
    they ·say quiet prayers to you [or utter incantations] when you punish them.
¹⁷ Lord, ·when we are with you [or because of you],
    we are like a woman giving birth to a baby;
    she cries and has pain from the birth.
¹⁸ ·In the same way [^LWe were pregnant/conceived], we ·had pain [writhed; strained].
    We gave birth, but only to wind.
We ·don’t bring [or can’t bring; haven’t brought] salvation to the ·land [earth]
    ·or given birth to new people for the world [^Lnor have the inhabitants of the earth fallen].
¹⁹ Your dead will live again;
    their bodies will rise from death.
You who ·lie in the ground [^Ldwell in the dust],
    wake up and ·be happy [shout joyfully]!
·The dew covering you [^LYour dew] is ·like the dew of a new day [^La dew of lights];
    the ·ground [earth] will give birth to the dead.