¹³ The pangs of childbirth come for him,
    but he is an unwise son,
for at the proper time he does not present himself
    at the mouth of the womb.^(A)

⁹ Shall I open the womb and not deliver?
    says the Lord;
shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb?
    says your God.

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;^(A)
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.^(B)

¹⁵ Call on me in the day of trouble;
    I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”^(A)

⁸     Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
    as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,^(A)

¹⁵ When they call to me, I will answer them;
    I will be with them in trouble;
    I will rescue them and honor them.^(A)