Isaiah 26:16-18

American Standard Version

¹⁶ Jehovah, in trouble have they ^[a]visited thee; they poured out a ^[b]prayer when thy chastening was upon them. ¹⁷ Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been ^[c]before thee, O Jehovah. ¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; ^[d]neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.