Isaiah 26:16-18

Lexham English Bible

¹⁶Yahweh, in distress they have visited you;
    they poured out an incantation;^[a]
    your discipline was on them.
¹⁷Like a pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes;
    she cries in her labor pains.

So we were because of your presence, Yahweh.

¹⁸We became pregnant, we writhed;
we gave birth to wind.
We cannot bring about deliverance on the earth,
and no inhabitants of the world are born.