Isaiah 26:17

^aAs the ¹woman 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.

Isaiah 26:18

We were ¹with child, we writhed in labor;

We ^agave birth, as it seems, only to wind.

We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,

And the ^binhabitants of the world ²were not born.