Isaiah 26:16-18

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁶ O Lord, the people have come to you in trouble.
They were humbled by oppression, by your discipline upon them.
¹⁷ O Lord, when we are with you,
we are like pregnant women ready to give birth.
They writhe and cry out in their labor pains.
¹⁸ We were pregnant; we writhed with labor pains
only to give birth to the wind.
We weren’t able to bring salvation to the land,
and no new people were born on earth.