Isaiah 26:16-18

16Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out [their] whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

17As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.

18We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.