Isaiah 26:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶ Lord, people remember you when they are in trouble.
    They say quiet prayers to you when you punish them.
¹⁷ Lord, when we are with you,
    we are like a woman giving birth to a baby.
    She cries and has pain from the birth.
¹⁸ In the same way, we had pain.
    We gave birth, but only to wind.
We don’t bring salvation to the land.
    We don’t make new people for the world.