Isaiah 26:18

We have been with child, we have been in pain, 1 we have as it were brought forth ruach (wind); 1 we have not wrought yeshu'ot (salvation of any kind) in Eretz; 1 neither have inhabitants of the tevel (world) been born. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

17Like a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, 1 in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; 1 so have we been in Thy sight, Hashem. 1

19Thy mesim + 26:19 see also Dan 12:2 (dead men) shall live, 1 together with my nevelah (dead bodies, corpses) shall they arise. 1 Awake and sing for joy, ye that dwell in aphar (dust); 1 for Thy tal (dew) is like the orot tal (morning dew), 1 and Eretz shall give birth to repha'im (dead ones). 1

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Cross References

Exodus 5:22And Moshe returned unto Hashem, and said, Adonoi, why hast Thou brought evil upon this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me?

1 Samuel 11:13And Sha'ul said, There shall not an ish be put to death this day; for today Hashem hath wrought Teshuah (Salvation) in Yisroel.

2 Kings 19:3And they said unto him, Thus saith Chizkiyahu, This day is a Yom Tzarah, and of tokhechah (rebuke), and ne'atzah (blasphemy, sacrilege); for the banim are come to the mashber (crisis of birth), and there is not ko'ach to bring forth.

Isaiah 33:11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth straw; 1 your ruach (breath), as eish, shall devour you. 1

Isaiah 59:4None calleth + 59:4 unto Hashem b'tzedek (in righteousness), 1 nor any pleadeth b'emunah (in faithfulness, in truth); 1 they trust in tohu (nothingness), + 59:4 nothingness, see Gn 1:2 and speak shav (vanity); 1 they conceive amal (trouble), and give birth to aven (wickedness). 1

John 7:7The Olam Hazeh is not capable of sin'ah (hatred) toward you, but the Olam Hazeh hates me, and for this reason: I give solemn edut (testimony) about it because the ma'asim of the Olam Hazeh are ra'im (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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