Isaiah 26:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁵But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

¹⁶O Lord, in distress they sought you,
    they poured out a prayer^[a]
    when your chastening was on them.
¹⁷Like a woman with child,
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs
    when she is near her time,
so were we because of you, O Lord;

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Isaiah 26:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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