Isaiah 26:14 - 26:18

The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise;

Therefore You have visited and destroyed them,

And You have made all remembrance of them perish.

You have increased the nation, O Yahweh;

You have increased the nation, You are glorified;

You have extended all the borders of the land.

O Yahweh, they visited You in distress;

They could only whisper a prayer;

Your chastening was upon them.

As the woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,

She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,

Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.

We were with child, we writhed in labor;

We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.

We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,

And the inhabitants of the world were not born.