Isaiah 26:11-18

11O Lord, ayour hand is lifted up,
but bthey do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let cthe fire for your adversaries consume them.
12O Lord, you will ordain dpeace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
13O Lord our God,
eother lords besides you have ruled over us,
fbut your name alone we bring to remembrance.
14They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
15 gBut you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
hyou have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 O Lord, iin distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
17 jLike a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18 kwe were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
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