Isaiah 26:11-18

11Though Your hand is lifted up [to strike], O Lord, the wicked do not see it. Let them see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame; Indeed, let the fire reserved for Your enemies consume them.

12Lord, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all that we have done.

13O Lord our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us; But through You alone we confess Your name.

14The [wicked] dead will not live [again], the spirits of the dead will not rise and return; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out every memory of them [every trace of them].

15You have increased the nation, O Lord; You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

16O Lord, they sought You in distress; They managed only a prayerful whisper When Your discipline was upon them.

17As a woman with child approaches the time to give birth, She is in pain and struggles and cries out in her labor, So we were before You, O Lord.

18We have been with child, we have twisted and struggled in labor; We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish salvation for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.