Isaiah 26:18

We have been pregnant, we have been in labor, but it is as if we have only given birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, 1 and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen. 1

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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 pregnant woman nears the time for her to give birth, 1 when she is in pain and cries out in her labor pains, 1 so we have been before you, Lord. 1

19Your dead will live; their dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing for joy, you who live in the dust; 1 for your dew is the dew of light, and the earth will bring forth its dead. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 5:22Moses went back to Yahweh and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you send me in the first place?

1 Samuel 11:13But Saul said, “No one must be put to death this day, because today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

2 Kings 19:3They said to him, “Hezekiah says, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for the children have come to the time of birth, but there is no strength for them to be born.

Isaiah 33:11You conceive chaff, and you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. 1

Isaiah 59:4No one calls in righteousness, and none pleads his case in truth. 1 They trust in empty words, and tell lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to sin. 1

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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