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14 The dead do not live;
    dead spirits do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them,
    and you have destroyed all memory of them.
15 You have added to the nation, Yahweh.
    You have added to the nation; you are honored.
    You have extended all the ends of the land.
16 Yahweh, in distress they have visited you;
    they poured out an incantation;[a]
    your discipline was on them.
17 Like a pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes;
    she cries in her labor pains.

So we were because of your presence, Yahweh.

18 We became pregnant, we writhed;
    we gave birth to wind.
We cannot bring about deliverance on the earth,
    and no inhabitants of the world are born.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:16 Literally “whispering”