Isaiah 26:16-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 O Lord, in distress they sought you;
they poured out a prayer[a]
when your chastening was on them.(A)
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;(B)
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.(C)
19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[b] shall rise.
Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy![c]
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.[d](D)
Isaiah 26:16-19
New Living Translation
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.
19 But those who die in the Lord will live;
their bodies will rise again!
Those who sleep in the earth
will rise up and sing for joy!
For your life-giving light will fall like dew
on your people in the place of the dead!
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