Isaiah 26:14-18
New American Standard Bible
14 (A)The dead will not live, the [a]departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have (B)punished and destroyed them,
And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.
15 (C)You have increased the nation, Lord,
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have (D)extended all the borders of the land.
16 Lord, they sought You (E)in distress;
They [b]could only whisper a prayer,
Your discipline was upon them.
17 (F)As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her labor pains;
This is how we were before You, Lord.
18 We were pregnant, we writhed in labor,
We (G)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,
Nor were (H)inhabitants of the world [c]born.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:14 Or shades
- Isaiah 26:16 Lit sound forth a whisper
- Isaiah 26:18 Lit fallen
Isaiah 26:14-18
International Standard Version
14 The dead won’t live,
and[a] the departed spirits won’t rise—
to that end, you punished and destroyed them,
then locked away[b] all memory of them.
15 “But you have enlarged the nation,[c] Lord;
you have enlarged the nation.[d]
You have gained honor;
you have extended all the borders of the land.
16 Lord, they[e] came to you in distress;
they poured out their secret[f] prayer
when your chastenings were[g] afflicting[h] them.
17 Just as a pregnant woman writhes
and cries out during her labor
when she is about to give birth,
so were we because of you, Lord.
18 We were pregnant, writhing in pain,
but we gave birth only to wind.
We have not won your[i] victory on earth,
nor have the inhabitants of the world been born.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsaa corrector MT lack and
- Isaiah 26:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read wiped out
- Isaiah 26:15 So 1QIsaa 4QIsab
- Isaiah 26:15 So 1QIsaa; MTms lacks this line
- Isaiah 26:16 So 1QIsaa MT; MTmss LXXmss read we; LXX reads I remembered you
- Isaiah 26:16 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT read out a magical
- Isaiah 26:16 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read your chastening was
- Isaiah 26:16 Lit. upon
- Isaiah 26:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks your
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