Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We have as it were brought forth wind. We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

In Context

17As a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before thee, O LORD.

19Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:22And Moses returned to LORD, and said, LORD, why have thou dealt ill with this people? Why is it that thou have sent me?

1 Samuel 11:13And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day, for today LORD has wrought deliverance in Israel.

2 Kings 19:3And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy, for the sons have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.

Isaiah 33:11Ye shall conceive chaff. Ye shall bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

Isaiah 59:4No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 26:13-20

Goodness of God to Israel; Israel Corrected for Sin; Prospects of the Church. ( b. c. 718.) 12 Lord , thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord , thou hast… Read the whole commentary →

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