Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

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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, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

19Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:22And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

1 Samuel 11:13And Saul said, Not a man is to be put to death today: for today the Lord has made Israel safe.

2 Kings 19:3And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.

Isaiah 33:11Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

Isaiah 59:4No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

John 7:7It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is 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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