Isaiah 26:16-18

Modern English Version

¹⁶ Lord, in trouble they have sought You;
    they poured out a prayer
    when Your chastening was on them.
¹⁷ Like a woman with child, who is in pain and cries out in her pangs
    when she draws near the time of her delivery,
    so have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain,
    we have, as it were, brought forth wind;
we have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
    nor were the inhabitants of the world born.