Isa 26:17-19 | 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 26:17-19

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.
19 ^cYour dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For ^dyour dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.