Isaiah 26:16-18

New International Version - UK

¹⁶ Lord, they came to you in their distress;
    when you disciplined them,
    they could barely whisper a prayer.^[a]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth
    writhes and cries out in her pain,
    so were we in your presence, Lord.
¹⁸ We were with child, we writhed in labour,
    but we gave birth to wind.
We have not brought salvation to the earth,
    and the people of the world have not come to life.