Isa 26:17-18 | ESV | STEP | Like 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 ;

b[See ver. 17 above]

Isaiah 26:17-18

17 ^aLike 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 ^bwe 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.